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Thankful’s Inheritance

CHAPTER IX
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As to his money--well, that's his business anyhow, and, besides, he ain't hirin' the horse and buggy; he's goin' to borrow it off his nephew over to the Centre.

His askin' me to go is a real neighborly act." "Huh! If he's so plaguy neighborly why don't he ask me to go, too?
I'm as nigh a neighbor as you be, ain't I ?" "He don't ask you because the buggy won't hold but two, and you know it.

I should think you'd be glad to have me save the expense of my fare.
Winnie S.would charge me fifty cents to take me to the depot, and the fare on the excursion train is--" "Now what kind of talk's that! I ain't complainin' 'cause you save the expense.

And I don't care if you go along with all the old men from here to Joppa.

What I'm sayin' is that I'm goin' to that Fair tomorrow.


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