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"If you would like to hear, Joe--" I was beginning, when Joe got up and

ca over me "Ever the best of

friends; ain't us, Pip?"

I was ashaood, then," said Joe, as if I had answered; "that's all right;

that's agreed upon Then why go into subjects, old chap, which as

betwixt two sech h

as betwixt two sech, without onnecessary ones Lord! To think of your

poor sister and her Raes! And don't you remember Tickler?"

"I do indeed, Joe"

"Lookee here, old chap," said Joe "I done what I could to keep you

and Tickler in sunders, but my poere not always fully equal to my

inclinations For when your poor sister had a mind to drop into you, it

were not so umentative way, "that

she dropped into me too, if I put myself in opposition to her, but that

she dropped into you always heavier for it I noticed that It ain't a

grab at a man's whisker, not yet a shake or two of a man (to which your

sister was quite welco a little

child out of punishment But when that little child is dropped into

heavier for that grab of whisker or shaking, then that ood as you are a doing? I grant you

I see the 'arood I call upon

you, sir, therefore, to pint out the good'"