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"Purty near buy the old shack," said Flamingus. "Our landlord," said Amarilly sagaciously, "is a shark, and he'll try to get the best of us. I am going to get Mr. Vedder to do the business for us, and he'll get the deed in all our names." "Put in Iry's too," pleaded Mrs. Jenkins solicitous for her Benjamin. "I'll put it to vote," said parliamentary Amarilly. "Who's for Iry?"
It's a white house with a big chimbley and two stoops, and thar's a big barn with two white hosses in it, and a cow and an animal in the paster lot. A big pen of pigs, fifty hens in the henhouse, and a few sheep. Thar's a piece of woods and the river." "I'm a little fearful of the river on Iry's account," said Mrs.
Their passing envy of the Jenkins's good fortune was instantly skimmed from the surface of their friendliness, which had only lain dormant and wanted but the touch of trouble to make them once more akin. When the city physician had pronounced Iry's "spell" to be scarlet fever, the other members of the household were immediately summoned by emergency calls.
"Better to take from friends than from the city. It won't be fer long. Iry seems to hev took it light, the doctor said." This diagnosis proved correct, but it had not occurred to Amarilly in her prognostications that the question of the duration of the quarantine was not entirely dependent upon Iry's convalescence.
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