YANK

A stoker confronts a caged gorilla as the only creature that might understand him — and finds even it won't.

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Yuh challenge de whole woild, huh? Yuh got what I was sayin' even if yuh muffed de woids. And why wouldn't yuh get me? Ain't we both members of de same club — de Hairy Apes? So yuh're what she seen when she looked at me, de white-faced tart! I was you to her, get me? On'y outa de cage — broke out — free to moider her, see?

Sure! Dat's what she tought. She wasn't wise dat I was in a cage, too — worser'n yours — sure — a damn sight — 'cause you got some chanct to bust loose — but me — Aw, hell! It's all wrong, ain't it? I s'pose yuh wanter know what I'm doin' here, huh? I been warmin' a bench down to de Battery — ever since last night. Sure.

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YANK

The Hairy Ape · Eugene O'Neill · 1:34 · 205 words

Welcome to your city, huh? Hail, hail, de gang's all here! Say, yuh're some hard-lookin' guy, ain't yuh? I seen lots of tough nuts dat de gang called gorillas, but yuh're de foist real one I ever seen. Some chest yuh got, and shoulders, and dem arms and mits! I bet yuh got a punch in eider fist dat'd knock 'em all silly! Sure, I get yuh. Yuh challenge de whole woild, huh? Yuh got what I was sayin' even if yuh muffed de woids. And why wouldn't yuh get me? Ain't we both members of de same club — de Hairy Apes? So yuh're what she seen when she looked at me, de white-faced tart! I was you to her, get me? On'y outa de cage — broke out — free to moider her, see? Sure! Dat's what she tought. She wasn't wise dat I was in a cage, too — worser'n yours — sure — a damn sight — 'cause you got some chanct to bust loose — but me — Aw, hell! It's all wrong, ain't it? I s'pose yuh wanter know what I'm doin' here, huh? I been warmin' a bench down to de Battery — ever since last night. Sure.

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