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Men began to coe for breakfast by twos and threes,

thoughthe need of food, or

caring if they did Every grove and clump of underbrush, every thicket,

was ransacked; the waters of the creek, shallow for the ed at every pool Nothing was found; there

was not a sign

The bar of the hotel was thronged allcitizens

rapidly made their way thither, and those who had breakfasted and were

going out again paused for internal, as well as external, reinforce hunt, set up his whiskey with a

lavish hand

"He was the best lasses full "We'd ort of sent hio He'd of done us honor there; but we never thought of doin'

anything fer hiive

hilooe Willetts"

"He was a goodWilliam Todd, whose nose was red, not froive up"

Schofields' Henry drew his sleeve across his eyes "He was the onlyatbreak in his utterance "Many a good word