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But I noticed he never got his money back, for when they come to him, why, they docked him. I reckon goin' security is purty much the same in an out o' books. She passes the borryin' along some way till it gits to headquarters, an' writes a new row o' figur's over the heads o' the others.
He's got a master head for figur's. Folks used to get him to post books you know, but he's past that now. Good-natured creatur' as ever stept; but he always was afeard of the dark, 'seems 's if I could see him there a-repentin' and the old white hoss shakin' his head," and she laughed again, but quickly stopped herself and looked over her shoulder at the window.
Well, my old brain got so addled watchin' Sonny work it thet I didn't seem to know one figur' f'om another 'fo' he got thoo; but when I see the answer come, why, I was satisfied. Ef a man can thess git his answers right all his life, why nobody ain't a-goin' to pester him about how he worked his figur's.
"There can't be over eight now, countin' out Martin Tighe; he can't march," said Stover. "No, 'tain't worth while." But the others did not notice his disapproval. "There's nine in all," announced Asa Brown, after pondering and counting two or three times on his fingers. "I can't make us no more. I never could carry figur's in my head." "I make nine," said Merrill.
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