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The Red Acorn

CHAPTER XVI
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Your mountain stills make the finest apple jack in the world.

There must be something in the water--that you don't put in.

It's as smooth as new-made butter.

Well, here's to the anner of Beauty and Glory.) In short, as I was saying when you hospitably interrupted me, we are willing to do anything for the cause, but unless there is some other way of riding, the most painful effort I could make for our beloved country would be to mount that horse again, and ride another hundred yards.

To be messenger of this good news would be bliss; what prevents it is a blister." The crowd laughed boisterously.
"Mister," said one of the Kentuckians who accompanied them, with that peculiar drawling inflection of the word that it were hopeless to attempt to represent in print, "ef ye want ter send some one in yer places me an' Si heah will be powerful glad ter go.


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