Life on the Mississippi • Paragraph 738
Stage 1 of 6

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'You've had no _orders_! My, what a fine bird we are! We must have _orders_! Our father was a _gentleman_--owned slaves--and we've been to _school_. Yes, _we _are a gentleman, _too_, and got to have _orders! orders_, is it? _Orders _is what you want! Dod dern my skin, _i'll_ learn you to swell yourself up and blow around here about your dod-derned _orders_! G'way from the wheel!' (I had approached it without knowing it.)