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She thought 'twas her duty, however, to warn him against profane language, but the answer she got was so much more prayerful than his first remarks, that she come about and headed for the sittin'-room quick. "Well, to make a long yarn short, the Kill-Smudge done the bus'ness. Kenelm stuck to smokin' till he couldn't read a cigar sign without his ballast shiftin', and then he give it up.
"'Course this kind of talk made Hannah mad, but she argued that 'twas the Kill-Smudge gettin' in its work, so she put a double dose into his teacup that night, and trusted in Providence.
She still stuck to the Kill-Smudge, though layin' in a fresh stock every once in a while and she dosed the tea about every other day, so's her brother wouldn't run no danger of relapse. I'm 'fraid Kenelm didn't get any too much joy out of his meals. "And so everything was all right 'cordin' to Hannah's reckonin' and it might have stayed all right if she hadn't took that trip to Washington.
I want you to look at it, but you mustn't tell anybody I gave it to you. "So Hannah unfurls the piece of newspaper, and 'twas an advertisement of 'Kill-Smudge, the sure cure for the tobacco habit.
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