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Risen from the Ranks

CHAPTER XI
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You say you aint one of 'em." "I am not." "Then you needn't go for to put on the coat.

But you're out of your reckoning, I guess.

I remember your mother very well.

She was Susan Baker." "Is that true, Fitz ?" "Ye--es," answered Fitz, reluctantly.
"I told you so," said the pedler, triumphantly.
"Perhaps he is your cousin, after all," said Henry Fairbanks.
"I tell you he isn't," said Fletcher, impetuously.
"How should he know your mother's name, then, Fitz ?" asked Tom.
"Some of you fellows told him," said Fitzgerald.
"I can say, for one, that I never knew it," said Tom.
"Nor I." "Nor I." "We used to call her Sukey Baker," said Abner.

"She used to go to the deestrict school along of Mother.


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