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See here, do you remember what you asked me that night when you struck me for the assistant keeper's job?
You asked me if I was married ?" Brown assented wonderingly.

"Why, yes," he said, "I believe I did." "You did.

And I ain't been so shook up for many a day.

Young feller, I'm goin' to tell you what no other man in Ostable County knows.