"An' Ma ain't nobody you can push aroun', neither. I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which han' was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn't even eat that chicken when she got done. They wasn't nothing but a pair of legs in her han'.
-Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath,
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