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Gutta-Percha Willie

CHAPTER VI
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I will look and see if I can find another _How_ anywhere." He looked a long time before he found one; for the capital H was in the way.

Of course there were a good many _how's_, but not many with a big H, and he didn't know that the little _h_ was just as good for the mere word.

Then he looked for _doth_, and he found several _doth's_.
Of _the's_ he found as great a swarm as if they had been the bees themselves with which the little song was concerned.

_Busy_ was scarce; I am not sure whether he found it at all; but he looked at it until he was pretty sure he should know it again when he saw it.

After he had gone over in this way every word of the first verse, he tried himself, by putting his finger at random here and there upon it, and seeing whether he could tell the word it happened to touch.


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