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Prairie Folks

PART II
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How goes it ?" "Tollable, tollable," said the astounded farmer, looking hard at Pill as he flung a handful of tobacco into his mouth.
"Yes, I'm the new minister sent around here to keep you fellows in the traces and out of hell-fire.

Have y' fled from the wrath ?" he asked, in a perfunctory way.
"You are, eh ?" said Bacon, referring back to his profession.
"I am just! How do you like that style of barb fence?
Ain't the twisted wire better ?" "I s'pose they be, but they cost more." "Yes, costs more to go to heaven than to hell.

You'll think so after I board with you a week.

Narrow the road that leads to light, and broad the way that leads--how's your soul anyway, brother ?" "Soul's all right.

I find more trouble to keep m' body go'n'." "Give us your hand; so do I.All the same we must prepare for the next world.


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