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All that David saw was what looked like some old frazzled-out rope, and he laid the things he had taken up around the new pipe in the joint, and he hammered them in tight with a kind of a dull chisel. That was so that the water shouldn't leak through.
He was the biggest man in Hope, and so swell-headed he wouldn't so much as pack a bucket of water all fall, or chop up a tie for kindlin' till the day after 'lection. And what was he then but a frazzled-out back number, that everybody give the laugh till he up and blowed his brains out! Any fool can run for President it's the feller that gits there that counts.
There never was a sister like Norah. But then, who ever heard of a brother-in-law like Max? No woman not even a frazzled-out newspaper woman could receive the love and care that they gave me, and fail to flourish under it. They had been Dad and Mother to me since the day when Norah had tucked me under her arm and carried me away from New York.
When the men had the old frazzled-out rope all hammered in tight, the other man came and brought him something that looked all snaky, and it was shiny like the lead of a pencil, and it waved about as if it were heavy and it seemed to be all moist like mud.
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