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His mother was sitting in a rocker, reading the evening paper with gold spectacles, and I never saw such a straight-backed old lady in my life, nor any so tall and thin and commanding. She looked up at us, kind of startled to see two soldiers walking into her kitchen, and Benny smiled a silly smile and said: "Mommer, I'm off to help Dooey in the Fillypines!"
We had beefsteak, warmed-over pigs' feet, coffee, potato cakes, fresh lettuce, Graham gems, and two kinds of pie, and the next day we sailed for Manila. Them early days in the Fillypines was the toughest proposition I was ever up against.
I boun' dey holds a confab and says: 'Le's make Mars William Pemberton er judge, and dat'll settle it. Does you have to go way down to dem Fillypines, Mars William, or kin you judge 'em from here?" "I'd have to live there most of the time, of course," said Billy. "I wonder what de Gubnor gwine say 'bout dat," speculated Jeff. Billy wondered too.
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