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"It's Fatty Matthews, the deputy marshal, who takes care of that Strann bad luck to him! Fatty's in the barroom now. But what's the matter? You seem like you was hearin' something?" "I am," replied Daniels enigmatically. "I'm hearin' something that would be music for the ears of Old Nick." And he turned on his heel and strode for the barroom.
And wonderfully he got through the first line, "The boy stood on the burning deck." But then he just had to look at Fatty, and Fatty had just put a peanut up to his mouth as a sort of signal, I guess. "The boy stood on the burning deck," repeated Jehosophat, forgetting the next line, and so having to stick to the first. He couldn't think of anything but Fatty's grinning mouth and that peanut.
It seemed the' was a brand of chewin' tobacco what had one o' these here knights on the tag, an' I was to dress up like the picture an' advertise it. The man who was to do it had sprained his ankle, an' Fatty's brother was huntin' up a new man. Fatty said he'd get me the job.
But what do you suppose? Afterward, when Fatty had grown up, and had children of his own, he often told them about the time he had escaped from the trap in Farmer Green's smokehouse. Fatty's children thought it very exciting. It was their favorite story. And they made their father tell it over and over again.
For instead of dropping upon the ground, Fatty's tree had fallen right against another tree on the edge of the woods. And there it lay, half-tipped over, with its branches caught fast in the branches of that other tree. It was no wonder that Johnnie Green shouted.
He hadn't understood what 'for fair' had meant at all. Still, he had agreed to play that way, and so, though he wanted to punch Fatty's head for him, he supposed he'd have to take his losses like a gentleman. But now Fatty was taking something out of his pocket, something made of wood and shaped like a bridge or a saw with teeth in it. He placed it on the ground. "Your turn, Joshy," he said.
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