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Vandemark’s Folly

CHAPTER VII
15/29

I am a fellow-sufferer with you, Mr.Vandemark--I also have land there.
Won't you and the doctor join me in a night-cap in honor of our neighborship; and drink to better acquaintance?
And let's invite our fellow wayfarers, too.

I have some game for them." He looked across to the other camp, and we went over to it, Gowdy giving the third goose and the gun to the negro who had hard work to manage them.

I had a roadside acquaintance with the movers, but did not know their names.

In a jiffy Gowdy had all of them, and had found out that they expected to locate near Waverly.

In five minutes he had begun discussing with a pretty young woman the best way to cook a goose; and soon wandered away with her on some pretense, and we could hear his subdued, vibratory voice and low laugh from the surrounding darkness, and from time to time her nervous giggle.


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