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"But I want the pertic'lars, jest the same. I want to know all about it. Where there's so much smoke there must be some fire." "Not allus, Dad," growled Marty, in disgust. "Smoke comes from an oak-ball, but there ain't no fire." "You air a smart young man," returned his father, coolly. "You'll grow up to be the town smartie, like Walky Dexter, I shouldn't wonder.
"Well, sir, you know that an oak-ball will smoke when you bust it atwixt your fingers but there ain't no fire in it," grunted Ham, philosophically. "Folk says that there can't be smoke without some fire. The oak-ball disproves it. And it's so with gossip. Gossip is the only thing that don't really need a beginning. It's hatched without the sign of an egg " "Oh, hang your platitudes, Ham!" I cried.
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