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Danny's Own Story

CHAPTER XIX
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I seen him get up and slip out.

It didn't look to me to be any place fur a gentle old poet.

While that little feller was making that charge you could feel the air getting tingly, like it does before a rain storm.
Some fellers started to clap their hands like at a political rally and to say, "Go it, Billy!" "That's right, Harden!" Which I found out later Billy Harden was in the state legislature, and quite a speaker, and knowed it.

Will, the chairman, he pounded down the applause, and then he says to the doctor, pointing to Billy Harden: "No man shall say of us that we did not give you a fair trial and a square deal.

I'm goin' to appoint this gentleman as your counsel, and I'm goin' to give you a reasonable time to talk with him in private and prepare your case.


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