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The End Of The World

CHAPTER XVIII
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They's too much bone and sinnoo in them arms of his'n, and moreover he's a gentleman.

I axed him to come and see me sometime, and he come.

He come ruther late it's true, but I s'pose he thought that sence we got sech a dee-splay of watch-seals and straps we had all got so stuck up, we wouldn't receive calls afore fashionable hours.

Any way, I 'low he didn't mean no harm, and he's my visitor, seein' he meant to come into my winder, knowin' the door was closed agin him.

And he won't let no man put him out, 'thout he's a man with more'n half a dozen watch-seals onto him, to give him weight and influence." "Samuel, will you see me insulted in this way?
Will you put this burglar out of the house ?" The "head of the house," thus appealed to, tried to look important; he tried to swell up his size and his courage.


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