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The Depot Master

CHAPTER X
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"I thought you said--" "I know what I said.

But we went auto ridin' just the same.
"'Twas Henry G.Bradbury that took us out, him and his bran-new big tourin' car.

You see, he landed to board with us the next day after Henrietta come--this Henry G.did--and he was so quiet and easy spoken and run his car so slow that even a pizen auto hater like Jonadab couldn't take much offense at him.

He wa'n't very well, he said, subject to some kind of heart attacks, and had come to the Old Home for rest.
"Him and the Cap'n had great arguments about the sins of automobilin'.
Jonadab was sot on the idee that nine folks out of ten hadn't machine sense enough to run a car.

Bradbury, he declared that that was a fact with the majority of autos, but not with his.


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