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Purdee, sitting silently smoking, glanced up at the noise. Abner took advantage of the momentary notice to claim, too, the attention of his mother. "I wish ye'd make Eunice quit talkin' 'bout the Grinnells' old baby, like she war actially demented uglies' bald-headed, slab-sided, slobbery old baby I ever see nare tooth in its head! I do despise them Grinnells."
"Don't you remember a tall, slab-sided youngster of thirteen, that used to stick pins into your chair for you to set on?" Kellogg smiled. "Surely you are not Joshua Bickford?" he said. "Yes, I am. I am that same identical chap." "I am glad to see you, Mr. Bickford," said his old school-teacher, grasping Joshua's hand cordially. "It seems kinder queer for you to call me Mr. Bickford."
"A long slab-sided useless feller. He's gone to live wid the blacks. He'll never come back no more. Most like he's dead by this time, speared or the like of that!" For a few seconds Blake, the cool, audacious gambler, was dazed, in spite of his natural self-confidence. He saw how he had been duped.
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