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Austin and His Friends

CHAPTER the Third
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A blind man may shoot a crow by mistake, but he ain't no judge o' colours.

Though ghosts are mostly white, they say.
Well, it may be different with you, and when you go to lunch at the Court, I'm sure I hope you'll see all the ghosts on the premises if you've a fancy for that kind of wild fowl.

Let ghosts leave me alone and I'll leave them alone--that's all I've got to say.

I never had no hankering after gentry as go flopping around without their bodies.
'Tain't commonly decent, to my thinking.

Don't hold with such goings on myself." "Oh, but you must make allowances for their circumstances," answered Austin.


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