to be talking. You remember right, because you
don’t remember nothing till you get home with
your thinking everything all over, but I certainly
don’t think much ever of that kind of way of
remembering right, Jeff Campbell. I certainly
do call it remembering right Jeff Campbell, to remember
right just when it happens to you, so you have a right
kind of feeling not to act the way you always been
doing to me, and then you go home Jeff Campbell, and
you begin with your thinking, and then it certainly
is very easy for you to be good and forgiving with
it. No, that ain’t to me, the way of remembering
Jeff Campbell, not as I can see it not to make people
always suffer, waiting for you certainly to get to
do it. Seems to me like Jeff Campbell, I never
could feel so like a man was low and to be scorning
of him, like that day in the summer, when you threw
me off just because you got one of those fits of your
remembering. No, Jeff Campbell, its real feeling
every moment when its needed, that certainly does seem
to me like real remembering. And that way, certainly,
you don’t never know nothing like what should
be right Jeff Campbell. No Jeff, it’s me
that always certainly has had to bear it with you.
It’s always me that certainly has had to suffer,
while you go home to remember. No you certainly
ain’t got no sense yet Jeff, what you need to
make you really feeling. No, it certainly is
me Jeff Campbell, that always has got to be remembering
for us both, always. That’s what’s
the true way with us Jeff Campbell, if you want to
know what it is I am always thinking.”
“You is certainly real modest Melanctha, when
you do this kind of talking, you sure is Melanctha,”
said Jeff Campbell laughing. “I think sometimes
Melanctha I am certainly awful conceited, when I think
sometimes I am all out doors, and I think I certainly
am so bright, and better than most everybody I ever
got anything now to do with, but when I hear you talk
this way Melanctha, I certainly do think I am a real
modest kind of fellow.” “Modest!”
said Melanctha, angry, “Modest, that certainly
is a queer thing for you Jeff to be calling yourself
even when you are laughing.” “Well
it certainly does depend a whole lot what you are
thinking with,” said Jeff Campbell. “I
never did use to think I was so much on being real
modest Melanctha, but now I know really I am, when
I hear you talking. I see all the time there are
many people living just as good as I am, though they
are a little different to me. Now with you Melanctha
if I understand you right what you are talking, you
don’t think that way of no other one that you
are ever knowing.” “I certainly could
be real modest too, Jeff Campbell,” said Melanctha,
“If I could meet somebody once I could keep right
on respecting when I got so I was really knowing with
them. But I certainly never met anybody like
that yet, Jeff Campbell, if you want to know it.”
“No, Melanctha, and with the way you got of thinking,
it certainly don’t look like as if you ever will