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"But we don't act the way people in books do, Jack. We can't. Things aren't just that way. "Well, I bet if I saw a lion coming through that wood there I'd kill him." "Suppose he ate you up first?" asked Zara. "He'd better not! My pop'd catch and make him sorry he ever did anything like that! Say, it is taking them a long time to come back. Maybe they've lost their way." "Could they around here?"
I wouldn't 'a done it Pop'd have licked me if he'd 'a known but he promised me a quarter." "Who promised you a quarter?" "Him the tramp. And I was doin' it, but he got awful mean, swore somethin' fierce and said I didn't know. And how was he to tell and us only halfway acrost?" "You mean you only took him halfway?" "It was all he'd let me," said Tito, on the defensive.
But most of all I was obliged to admire my friend Millington, who, by his powerful knack of eloquence, to the wonder of the whole company, sold Cave's Lives of the Fathers to Solomon the Magnificent, and the Scotch Directory to the Priests of the Sun; nay, he sold-Archbishop Laud's Life to Hugh Peters, Hob's Leviathan to Pope Boniface, and pop'd Bunyan's Works upon Bellarmine for a piece of unrevealed Divinity; After the sale was over, I took an opportunity of making myself known to him, who caressed me with all the freedom imaginable, asking me, how long I had been in these parts? and what news from the other world? and a thousand particular questions about his old friends; to all which I responded as well as I could: and having given me a caution to avoid some people, by whom I was threatened, for exposing them in my letters, we went to take a bottle together.
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