Why, it never made no difference to him—he would bet on anyt…
Why, it never made no difference to him—he would bet on anything—the dangdest feller.Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t going to save her;but one morning he come in, and Smiley asked how she was, and he said she was considerable better thank the Lord for his inf’nit mercy and coming on so smart that, with the blessing of Providence, she’d get well yet; and Smiley, before he thought, says, “Well, I’ll risk two-and-a-half that she don’t, anyway.” The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.