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Indeed so struck was he by the verve and virility of this astounding man that he took to attiring his lower limbs which seldom showed above the counter in the breeches, leggings, belt and pistol so well known to all lovers of the limitless prairie. The infinite pathos of Jabez Puffwater's blind devotion to one whom he had never seen will not fail to strike home to the stoniest heart.
Little boys on their way home from school would throw mud at him, but he never heeded them; little girls would make rude noises quite near him with their rubber overshoes, but he ignored them utterly. I often wonder on looking back what Douglas Bogtoe would have been had he but possessed one half of Puffwater's concentrated repose.
Many psychoanalysts have endeavoured to discover the exact motive for Jabez Puffwater's sudden and unexpected slaying of his old Aunt Topsy whose coal-black arms had fondled him as a baby. Many theories have been put forward, but none of them with the exception, perhaps, of Herman Pipper possess the ring of truth.
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