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David Harum

CHAPTER XIV
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I want to see how long it'll take to git all over the village that he didn't ask no odds o' nobody.

Hadn't ben out o' a job three days 'fore the' was a lot o' chances, an' all 't he had to do was to take his pick out o' the lot on 'em." "Really ?" said John.
"Yes, sir," said David.

"Some folks is gaited that way.

Amusin', ain't it ?--Hullo, Dick! Wa'al ?" "Willis'll give two hunderd fer the sorr'l colt," said the incomer, whom John recognized as one of the loungers in the Eagle bar the night of his arrival.
"E-um'm!" said David.

"Was he speakin' of any pertic'ler colt, or sorril colts in gen'ral?
I hain't got the only one the' is, I s'pose." Dick merely laughed.


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