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Cities are wells of iniquity; they’re full of all kinds of doin’s that respectable people wouldn’t be seen at, and I’m proud to say that I haven’t been in one myself for twenty-five years. I’m a great believer in keepin’ out of trouble, an’ if Jack’d just stuck to college an’ let towns go, he’d never have met the cabman and the Kalamazoo girl, an’ I’d have overlooked the cook an’ the cat.
They had been speaking of the sermon they had heard, when Mr. Middleton said, "That’s the right kind of meetin’ to my notion. A feller can sleep a bit if he feels like it; but whar my gals go, in Frankford, they have the queerest doin’s—keep a gittin’ up and sittin’ down; ’pears like you don’t moren’t git fairly sot afore you have to hist up again, and you can’t sleep to save you.
He was bending low and examining fresh signs when he saw me. “Howdy, kid, here’s some doin’s. Shall we foller him?” “Of course, Pete; what are we here for, the mountain air?” I answered. “No,” answered Pete, in his deep, low voice, “we’re here for game,” and off he started, but slowly and with great caution.
Lighting his old cob pipe he said, "Come, Bill, Nancy’ll fetch out her rockin’ cheer and knittin’ work, and we’ll hear the story of your doin’s in that heathenish land, but be kinder short, for pears like I’d lived a year today, and I feel mighty like goin’ to sleep." After a moment’s silence Mr.
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