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Updated: May 22, 2025
Best of all too, I'd been put next to Vee, and I was just workin' up to exchangin' a hand squeeze under the tablecloth when, right in the middle of one of Pa Pulsifer's best stories, there floats in through the open windows a crash that makes everybody sit up. It sounds like breakin' glass. "Hah!" snorts Pulsifer, scowlin' out into the dark. "Now what in blazes was that?"
Well, he went down to the civil service office and tackled the fool questions. I saw him next day it was Memorial Day, and soldiers were marchin' and flags flyin' and people cheerin'. Where was my young man? Standin' on the corner, scowlin' at the whole show. When I asked him why he was so quiet, he laughed in a wild sort of way and said: "What rot all this is!"
I seen him hand it to old Pop Daggett, who was peevish as a wet hen 'cause he couldn't find out nothin' about what was in it, 'count of Buck hangin' around till it got on the train. That's the only letter I seen. "He didn't have no more to say, but walked off, scowlin' fierce.
"Just let those damned old cups slip from your palsied fingers, will you? I'm goin' to take your honourable age for a little country air it may keep you out of the grave for a few days longer. Never can tell! No use your scowlin' like that the car's outside, and the big chief says to be off with you.
"And you still have a capital of three hundred for future operations, eh?" "I'm through, sir," says Vincent. "I I don't like lying to mother. Besides after next Monday I don't think Izzy will bother me for any more tips. I I suppose I'm fired, sir?" "Eh?" says Old Hickory, scowlin' at him fierce. "Fired? No. Boys who have a dislike for lying to mother are too scarce.
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