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"She was fair beside herself, bein' as the loss hed piled up on a long sickness o' Sum's, an' a big doctor's bill consequent, an' she nervous anyhow, an' a good deal o' the ribbin tyin' the stems was silk, both sides. "'I'll hev out the marshal, s'she, wild. 'I'll send for Timothy. They can't hev got far with 'em.
I am gettin' kind o' old an' some stiff to take a new business on myself. "An' Timothy, he adds absent: 'I don't s'pose, when you come right down to it, as Alice County'll rilly care a whoop. "An' Mis' Fire Chief Merriman, she wipes up her eyes, an', 'It does seem like courtin' with Sum's flowers, she says, sighin', 'but I'm rill glad for Eb.
She'd got up early to go alone to the cemetery, an', my house bein' the nearest, she'd come rushin' back to me with her news. "'Cally! s'she, from almost before she laid eyes on me, 'Cally! Somebody's stole every last one o' the flowers off'n Sum's grave. An' the ribbins.
"She got up, simple an' natural, an' picked up the fruit piece an' one o' the pillows, an' started up the hill. "'Well, I nev-er, says Mis' Merriman; 'the very bare brazenness. Ain't you goin' to tell me what you're doin' here with the flowers you say is the dead's, an' I'm sure what was Sum's is mine an' the dead's the same
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