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Penrod and Sam

CHAPTER I
13/18

You unnerstand that, Verman ?" "Aw wi," said Verman.
"Then go on in there.

Hurry!" The obedient Verman marched into the closet and sat down among the shoes and slippers, where he presented an interesting effect of contrast.

He was still subject to hilarity--though endeavouring to suppress it by means of a patent-leather slipper--when Penrod closed the door.
"There!" said Penrod, leading the way from the room.

"I guess NOW you see!" Sam said nothing, and they came out to the open air and reached their retreat in the Williams' yard again, without his having acknowledged Penrod's service to their mutual cause.
"I thought of that just as easy!" Penrod remarked, probably prompted to this odious bit of complacency by Sam's withholding the praise that might naturally have been expected.

And he was moved to add, "I guess it'd of been a pretty long while if we'd had to wait for you to think of something as good as that, Sam." "Why would it ?" Sam asked.


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