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Updated: August 17, 2026

Of course, ve suspected he done it, but how he done it vas as much a puzzle as the Spinks. Next day, arter ve got him into his box, ve vatched and listened. Ve heard a queer kind of sound, like a man trying to play the jewsharp vith his boots; and, sir, ve detected the cracker-fiend a climbin' over the partitions into the neighborin' boxes, and a collarin' all the crackers he could come acrost.

Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage - The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales