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The Octopus

CHAPTER VI
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Skeezicks, the Frenchman, had turned upon the joshers.
"Ah, no," he was heard to exclaim, "at the end of the end it is too much.

Kind of a bad canary--we will go to see about that.

Aha, let him close up his face before I demolish it with a good stroke of the fist." The men who were lighting the lanterns were obliged to intervene before he could be placated.
Hooven and his wife and daughters arrived.

Minna was carrying little Hilda, already asleep, in her arms.

Minna looked very pretty, striking even, with her black hair, pale face, very red lips and greenish-blue eyes.


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