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There sits Rebecca, then, in the open door of the Sawyers barn chamber the sunset door. How many a time had her grandfather, the good deacon, sat just underneath in his tipped-back chair, when Mrs. Israel's temper was uncertain, and the serenity of the barn was in comforting contrast to his own fireside!
Down a side street his rather uncertain gait led them, to the wide-open door of a frame livery stable. The usual loungers in the usual tipped-back chairs greeted him. "Want m' rig," he demanded. A large and leisurely man in shirt sleeves lounged out from the office and looked him over dispassionately. "You've been drunk four days," said he, "have you the price?" "Bet y'," said Dick, cheerfully.
The former good-naturedly tossed a cigarette over to the prisoner, with the remark: "Have a smoke, Windy it's the last you'll get for some time." Moran, slumped in a tipped-back chair, blew a whiff of smoke from a lop-sided mouth. "Six months!" chanted he lugubriously, "an' they call this a free country! free hell! "Oh, bury me out on th' lone prair-ee, Where th' wild ki-oot'll howl over me,
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