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"Right, Joe, right, so, if you have no objection, we will leave it to them," said Dominick, "and now as to the ceremonial?" "A pursession," suggested Joe Binney. "Just so," said Hugh Morris, "the very thing as was in my mind." "And a throne," cried Malone, "there couldn't be a proper quane widout a throne, you know.
You kin shell out the dollars; and I'll gie ye pursession afore this gentleman who'll witness it in writin', ef you like." "I want no writing. I can trust to your word."
I made no hesitation, therefore; but, counting out the money, placed it upon the stump alongside that curious document, impaled there by the blade of the squatter's knife. "When 'ud ye like to take pursession?" asked the outgoing tenant. "At your convenience," I replied, wishing to behave as courteously as possible. "It won't take me long to move.
"To-morrow I'll know more about you than I do now," said he. "And some others will, too," he added. At about eleven o'clock he saw leaping the front gate a tall raw boned bloodhound. "It's a pity a pore dum' brute has got to lead this pursession; but if it mus' be, it mus' be." So saying, he lifted his rifle to his shoulder and a shot rang out on the air.
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