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The Depot Master

CHAPTER X
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And right astern of him comes Jonadab, hangin' to the wheel, HIS hat gone, his mouth open, and fillin' the dust with yells and coughs.
"You could see folks runnin' to doors and front gates; but you never saw 'em reach where they was goin'-- time they done that we was somewheres round the next bend.

A pullet run over us once--yes, I mean just that.
She clawed the top of the widow's bunnit as we slid underneath her, and by the time she lit we was so fur away she wa'n't visible to the naked eye.

Bradbury--who'd got better remarkable sudden--was pawin' at Jonadab's arm, tryin' to make him ease up; but he might as well have pawed the wind.

As for Henrietta Bassett, she was acrost the back of the front seat tootin' the horn for all she was wuth.

And curled down in a heap on the cockpit floor was a fleshy, sea-farin' person by the name of Barzilla Wingate, sufferin' from chills and fever.
"I think 'twas on the long stretch of the Trumet road that we beat Tobias.


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