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"Now, Aunt Martha, never mind scolding Billy Louise; you know you think as much of her as you do of me, and that's throwing a big bouquet at myself!" Charlie went up and laid his arm caressingly over the old woman's shoulder. "You don't want to let this upset you, Aunt Martha. Surbus was a mean-tempered brute with strangers. You know that. I don't blame Miss Louise in the least.
And though the other keepers insisted to each other, quite privately, that their chief talked a lot of nonsense about "that there mean-tempered old buffalo," they nevertheless came gradually to look upon Last Bull with a kind of awe, and to regard his surly whims as privileged. It chanced that winter that men were driving a railway tunnel beneath a corner of the Park.
"Chip, you're an ugly, mean-tempered that's right, Whizzer! Kick him if you can I'll stand by you!" This assertion, you understand, was purely figurative; the Little Doctor would have hesitated long before attempting to carry it out literally. "Now, Whizzer, when he tries to ride you, don't you let him! Perhaps Whizzer understood the command in some mysterious, telepathic manner.
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