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`` Wall , '' says I , `` mebby you will see the time , before the sun rises on your bald head again , that you will be sorry for such talk . '' Says I , `` If it wus one of the relation on your side , mebby you would talk different about him . '' That touched him ; and he snapped out , -- `` What do you s ` pose I care which side he wus on ? And I should think it wus time to have a little sunthin ' to eat : it must be three o'clock if it is a minute . '' Says I , `` Can you eat , Josiah Allen , in such a time as this ? '' `` I could if I could _ get _ any thing to eat , '' says he ; `` but there do n't seem to be much prospect of it . '' Says I , `` The best thing you can do , Josiah Allen , is to foller his tracks .