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Dotty Dimple Out West

CHAPTER X
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The more he drinks, the larger he will grow, and the harder it will be to cut him out." "That's so," said Horace.

"I could preach, with jigger for a text.

Ahem! He is like sin--the more you let him stay, the more you'll wish you hadn't.

Come, Dotty, be brave, and out with him!" "You can talk to _me_," said Dotty, bitterly; "but if it was _your_ side that had a _jiggle_ in, perhaps you'd feel as bad's I do." Horace was prepared for this.
"But I've had them cut out twice, miss.

Being a boy, I could bear it!" This settled the question.
"Girls are just as brave as boys," said Dotty; and submitted to the knife without a murmur.
The next day she was regarded as something of an invalid.


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