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The Attache

CHAPTER XI
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She vowed she'd stop public next mornin', and bile her kettle with the sign; folks might entertain themselves and be hanged to 'em, for all her, that they might.

Then she mounted a ladder and goes up into the loft-to change.
"'Judge' sais I, 'I am sorry, too, I singed that pig's tail arter that fashion, for the smell of pork chops makes me feel kinder hungry, and if we had 'em, no soul could eat 'em here in such a stye as this.

But, dear me,' sais I, 'You'd better move, Sir; that old woman is juicy, and I see it a comin' through the cracks of the floor above, like a streak of molasses.
"'Mr.Slick,' sais he, 'this is dreadful.

I never saw any thing so bad before in all this country; but what can't be cured must be endured, I do suppose.

We must only be good-natured and do the best we can, that's all.


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