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The Harvester

CHAPTER XI
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I----if you like----fell in love with the girl.

She came so alluringly, and I was so close to her that I saw her better than I ever did any other girl, and I knew her for all time.

When she went, my heart was gone." "And you have lived without that important organ ever since ?" "Without even the ghost of it! She took it with her.

Well, that dream was so real, that the next day I began building over my house, making furniture, and planting flowers for her; and every day, wherever I went, I watched for her." "What nonsense!" "I can't see it." "You won't find a girl you dreamed about in a thousand years." "Wrong!" cried the Harvester triumphantly.

"Saw her in little less than three months, but she vanished and it took some time and difficult work before I located her again; but I've got her all solid now, and she doesn't escape." "Is she a 'lovely and gracious lady' ?" "She is!" said the Harvester, with all his heart.
"Young and beautiful, of course!" "Indeed yes!" "Please fill this glass.


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