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Danny's Own Story

CHAPTER V
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There's a farmhouse right over there, and I'll give you your first lesson right now.

Rummage around in that satchel there under the seat and get me a tin box and some corn salve labels." I found a lot of labels, and some boxes too.

The labels was all different sizes, but barring that they all looked about the same to me.
Whilst I was sizing them up he asts me agin was they any corn salve ones in there.
"What colour label is it, Doctor Kirby ?" I asts him.

Fur they was blue labels and white labels and pink labels.
He looks at me right queer.

"Can't you read the labels ?" he says, right sharp.
"Well," I says, "I never been much of a reader when it comes to different kind of medicines." "Corn salve is spelled only one way," says he.
"That's right," I says, "and you'd think I orter be able to pick out a common, ordinary thing like corn salve right off, wouldn't you ?" "Danny," he says, "you don't mean to tell me you can't read anything at all ?" "I never told you nothing of the kind." He picks out a label.
"If you can read so fast, what's that ?" he asts.
She is a pink one.


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