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Jerry

CHAPTER X
15/17

Probably I did look young; and then Nannie, whom I was supposedly visiting, was only fifteen.

There were a lot of cousins in the house besides all the little Hilliards, and what do you think?
They made the children eat in the school-room! I never saw him until Christmas night; then when we were introduced, he shook my hand in a listless sort of way, said "How d'y' do ?" and forgot all about me.

He went off with the Glee Club the next day, and I only saw him once more.
'We were playing blind man's buff in the school-room; I had just been caught by the hair.

It hurt and I was squealing.

Everybody else was clapping and laughing, when suddenly the door burst open and there stood Jerry Junior! He looked straight at me and growled---- '"What are you kids making such an infernal racket about ?"' She shut her eyes.
'Aunt Hazel, Dad, just think.


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