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Updated: May 21, 2025

After that he relighted his pipe. Had this newcomer from across the Virginia border been his peer in marksmanship, he reasoned, he would not have let the exploit rest there without contest, and his own competitive spirit prompted him to goad the obviously inferior stranger. "Thar's an old cock-of-the woods hammerin' away atter grubs up yon," he suggested.

Charles Neville Buck - The Roof Tree