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"If you mean you couldn't get away with it," says Hunk, "you got another guess. Why, in one forenoon I could coach you up for a spiel that would set 'em mobbin' the ticket wagons! And with you in a white silk lid drivin' four spotted ponies and leadin' the grand street parade say they'd be lettin' out the schools for our matinées."
Outside and among folks well, maybe you've seen an owl in the daylight with the small birds mobbin' him. . . . Now about yourself and the Mortimers from this child's story there's no evidence yet to connect her or the boy with either of you. The man Hucks knows, and that carrier fellow at the wharf saw them for a minute, with Mortimer standin' by.
Thar's thousands an' thousands of people, mobbin' about indiscrim'nate; I sees 'em as near an' plain as I sees Dan. "'An' whatever be they doin'? asks Dan. "'They're pullin' off a hoss race, says the Colonel, lookin' steady in Dan's eye. 'An' you hears me! I never sees sech bettin' in my life.
"There was a pretty dido goin' on atween the dree, an' all talkin' together the two men mobbin' each other, an' the girl i' the middle callin' em every name but what they was chris'ened, wi'out distinction o' persons, as the word goes. "'What's the uproar? asks Ould Wounds, stoppin' the tap-tap o' his crop, as they comes up. "'The woman b'longs to me, says the first.
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