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The Red Acorn

CHAPTER VI
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Encouraged, Nels continued, as its last echoes died away: "Yes, he's just as spry and pert as anybody.

He seems to have recovered entirely from all his wounds; none of 'em have disfiggered him any, and his nerves have got over their terrible strain." Tim ran promptly through all the notes in his diapason, and the rest joined in on the middle register.
"Well, I'm not at all surprised," said Mr.Oldunker, a bitter States' Rights Democrat, and the oracle of his party.

"I told you how it'd be from the first.

Harry Glen was one of them Wide-Awakes that marched around on pleasant evenings last Fall with oil-cloth capes and kerosene lamps.

I told you that those fellows'd be no where when the war they were trying to bring on came.


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