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He hardly talks above a whisper, and he's afraid to look a girl in the face." "Ain't he the boy Josiah Pilling took out o' the Orphans' Home, here about twenty years ago?" queried Pap Buckwalder. "Yep," replied Hatch. "I heerd somethin' about that when he went to the 'cademy here.
Who is the feller, anyway?" "Pap" Buckwalder read the answer to Tobit's question from the current number of the Brickville Weekly Gazette. "The new teacher is Aubrey Pilling, the adopted son of farmer Josiah Pilling, of Blair Township. He has taught the school of that township for three winters, and is a graduate of the Brickville Academy." Sam Hatch, standing by the stove, remembered him.
The expected and yet the unexpected happened one night in Couch's saloon, the scene of most of the eventful incidents in Tobit McStenger's life since he had dawned upon Brickville. Tobit and Honesty Yerkes, Pap Buckwalder, old Tony Couch himself, and half a score others were making a conversational hubbub before the bar. In walked Aubrey Pilling.
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