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"But I haven't any other uses for my present capital," pursued Mr. Hibbert, as smiling as ever. "So come along, please." Instead of jumping at the offer, Dick's partners regarded the man in the four-quart hat with some doubt. Often, when offered a courtesy from strangers that they would like to accept, these boys were likely to regard the offer with this same attitude of suspicion.
That day the authorities the police had confiscated twenty dressed hogs, and in each porcine carcass they had found four-quart bottles of whisky, artistically imbedded in the leaf-lard fat. The day before those same authorities had confiscated a barrel of "kerosene." They were becoming altogether too officious, Lovak thought. Aldous went on.
Hibbert turned, glancing inquiringly at the stranger. "Are you Mr. Hibbert?" asked the latter. "Yes," nodded the man in the four-quart hat. "My name is Colquitt," explained the stranger. "I am from " "Er -yes, quite so," murmured Mr. Hibbert. "And here is the boy. He is named Greg Holmes. Do you observe his right ear?" "I do," Colquitt assented, after a swift, keen glance.
For a berry-patch was community property, and when the crop was plentiful, as it was this year, a berry-picking became a pleasant social function, where one met friends from near and far, and picnicked with them under the trees. Christina was working with furious speed. She and Sandy had been racing all morning to see who would be the first to fill a four-quart pail.
Shake it, too, so he can hear the oats swishing around in it. You'll get him that way." Johnnie Green hastened to carry out his father's plan. And he was smiling as he stepped through the doorway, holding the four-quart measure and shaking it to hear the sound that the oats made inside it. Then his father called to him.
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