And a couple of hours after she'd gone Nate and his boy came back with a clothes basket with a board over the top and loaded in the balance of the family and went off with 'em.

I ain't seen a hair of 'em since--no, I won't say that quite, but I ain't seen THEM." "And didn't he give you any of the seven dollars ?" "No-o." "But you had been feeding those kittens and their mother for weeks." "Ye-es." "But didn't you ASK for anything ?" "We-ll, I told Nate he might maybe leave one of the kittens, so's I could have a--er--souvenir of the visit, but he wouldn't do it.
Said those kittens was rare and--er--precious, or words to that effect.

He didn't intend to let another go as cheap as he had that one." "Oh.

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