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The little man nodded cheery greeting to the showman, cried his usual "Hullo, Cousin Aaron!" to the surly skipper, bobbed off his van, and proceeded to unharness. "Well," sighed Hiram, resignedly, "guest Number One for supper, lodgin', and breakfast nine shillin's and hossbait extry. 'Ev'ry little helps, as old Bragg said when he swallowed the hoss-fly."
Macey now started an objection to his proposing himself as a deputy-constable; for that oracular old gentleman, claiming to know the law, stated, as a fact delivered to him by his father, that no doctor could be a constable. "And you're a doctor, I reckon, though you're only a cow-doctor for a fly's a fly, though it may be a hoss-fly," concluded Mr.
Why, he's said things in my shop that it would be worth anybody's while to remember. Just stepped in and said them and went out like it wasn't no trouble at all. And look what he's done for the paper here! Every time he touches her he makes her flinch like a hoss-fly lightin' on a hoss.
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