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We and the World, Part I

CHAPTER IX
18/24

He's caught him in four already.

You see, when old Snuffy is cat-walking he wears goloshes that he may sneak about better, and the way Lorraine makes booby-traps is by balancing cans of water on the door when it's ajar, so that he gets doused, and the can falls on his head, and strings across the bottom of the door, not far from the ground, so that he catches his goloshes and comes down.

The other fellows say that old Crayshaw had a lot of money given him in trust for Lorraine, and he's spent it all, and Lorraine has no one to stick up for him, and that's why Crayshaw hates him.
"-- --_Saturday_.

I could not catch the milkman, and now I've got your letter, though Snuffy read it first.

Jem and I cry dreadful in bed.
That's the comfort of being together.


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