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Mary-’Gusta

CHAPTER IV
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I shouldn't want my dolls,' she says, 'to do things at funerals that make people feel bad and laugh.' I couldn't get that through my head.

'If they felt bad they wouldn't laugh, would they ?' says I.'THEY wouldn't--the ones that felt bad wouldn't,' says she, 'but others might laugh at them.

And that would make the person who was to blame feel TERRIBLY.' Now what was all that about?
Can you make any sense of it ?" Captain Shadrach smiled sheepishly.

"I cal'late me and Zoeth have an idea what she was drivin' at," he said.

"Go on, Isaiah; what else did she say ?" "What didn't she say?
Wanted to know if I thought God would knock anybody's head off that had done wrong, even if they didn't mean to.
Yes, sir, that's what she said---if God would knock anybody's head off.
Mine pretty nigh come off when she said that.


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