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Some Short Stories

CHAPTER III
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You wouldn't believe what I've seen.

The bigger bugs they are the more they're on the lookout." Mamie still followed, but at a distance.

"The lookout for what ?" "Why for anything that will help them to live.

You've been here all this time without making out then, about them, what I've had to pick out as I can?
They're dead, don't you see?
And WE'RE alive." "You?
Oh!"-- Mamie almost laughed about it.
"Well, they're a worn-out old lot anyhow; they've used up their resources.

They do look out and I'll do them the justice to say they're not afraid--not even of me!" he continued as his sister again showed something of the same irony.


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