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"I sorter wish he would appear," he presently put in, between puffs at his pipe. "There was somethin' I wanted to ask him about that durn motor-boat." "You don't mean to say that boat's out of order again, do you, Zenas Henry?" questioned Abbie. "No, oh, no! 'Tain't out of order exactly. But the pesky propeller is kickin' up worse'n ordinary. It's awful taxin' on the patience.
"Lafe's in right where he kin git the most the quickest." "Run out and git him to step up here," said Scattergood. In half an hour Lafe Siggins, tall, bony, long, and solemn of face, stepped into the room, and closed the door after him cautiously. "Howdy, Scattergood!" he said. "Howdy, Lafe!... Want your backin' for a pop'lar measure. I've up and invented a new way of taxin' a railroad."
"'Well, it costs so much to live, he says, 'an' the wholesalers have kept liftin' the prices on me. Now there's the meat trust their prices are up thirty-five per cent. "'Of course, I says, 'the directors have to have their luxuries. You taxed us for yer new house an' yer automobile an' yer daughter's education, an' they're taxin' you for their steam-yachts an' private cars an' racin' stables.
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