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A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s

CHAPTER XXV
7/18

"I'll pay nothing! I have a permit to travel on the highway!" "You have no right to scare horses!" Willis retorted.

"Your lion made a horrible noise." "His noise wasn't worse than your hog stench!" the showman rejoined hotly.

"My lion has as good a right to roar as your hogs have to squeal.
Drive on!" he shouted to his drivers.
The show moved forward.

The Fat Lady looked back and laughed, and the Wild Man pretended to squeal like a pig; but the gypsy fortune teller smiled and said, "Too bad!" Having got no satisfaction, we returned hastily to chase our runaway team.

We came upon it less than a hundred yards away, jammed fast between two pine trees.


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