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Updated: June 27, 2025
Under their stings of jeering clamor, and under the anguish of the calamity which his reeling senses could scarcely measure, Job Grinnell's composure suddenly gave way. He threw up his arms and called upon Heaven; he turned and glared furiously at his enemy. Then, as Purdee's laughter still jarred the air, he drew a "shooting-iron" from his pocket.
He noted the significant fact that it behooved him to justify himself; it irked him that this was exacted as a tribute to Purdee's newly acquired sanctity. "Purdee's jes a-lyin' an' a-foolin' ye," he declared. "Ever been up on the bald?" They had lived in its shadow all their lives. Even by the circuitous mountain ways it was not more than five miles from where they sat.
And because of the charge Purdee was the richer by a huge slice of mountain land how large he could not say, as he ruefully followed the line of survey. But for this discovery the interest of processioning Purdee's land would have subsided with the determination of the ownership of the limited environment of the stone tables of the Law.
"Waal, sir," exclaimed the violinist, "I'm a-goin' up yander ter Purdee's ter-morrer ter find out what he died of, an' when." That he was alive was proved the next day, to the astonishment of the smith and his friends.
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