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The Rise of Roscoe Paine

CHAPTER II
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I see the carriages when they come--two freight cars full of 'em.

There was a open two-seater, and a buckboard, and that high-wheeled thing they called a dog-cart." Beriah Doane laughed uproariously.

"Land of love!" he shouted.

"Does the dog have a cart all to himself?
That's a good one! You and me ain't got no dog, Sam, but we might have a couple of cat-carts, hey?
Haw! haw!" Thoph paid no attention to this pleasantry.

"There was the dog-cart," he repeated, "and another thing they called the 'trap.' But there wan't any coach; I'll swear to it." "Don't make no difference," declared Alvin; "there was a man along that SAID he was the coachman, anyhow.


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