“You ain’t change much, is you boy?” said Big Nail.
C.K. leaned forward over his glass and seemed to consider it very seriously.
“Well, I don’t know, they’s some people say I ain’t – then they’s others say I just a little faster than I used to be, that’s all.”
“Now I wonder jest what do they mean by that, these people tellin’ you you so much faster than you use to be.”
“Oh they didn’t say ‘so much faster,’ they jest say ‘a little faster’ – because I was always pretty fast… you may recall.”
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