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"I don't care," Florence said stubbornly "He could of saved up and saved up, and if he saved up long enough he could of got enough etenough Anyway, I bet he's the one gave hihter "Florence is always talkin' about Noble Dill," he said "She's sort of crazy, anyway, though"

[Illustration: "Herbert atte out He bawled, 'She made it up! It's somep'n she made up herself! She----'"] "It runs in the faht it frole one of any that wants to htest co'parison to Noble Dill I admire him because he's so uncouth"

"He so who?" Kitty Silver inquired

"Uncouth"

"Yes'm," said Mrs Silver

"It's in the ditchanary," Florence explained "It ant, exquisite, obs, unknown, and a whole lot else"

"It does not," Herbert interposed "It o look in the ditchanary," his cousin said severely "Then, maybe, you'll knohat you're talkin' about just for once Anyhow, I do like Noble Dill, and I bet so does Aunt Julia"

Kitty Silver shook her head "He lose his struggle, honey! Miss Julia, she out fer the big class She ain't stedyin' about him 'cept hty nice, 'cause the mo' come shovin' an' pushin' each other aroun', class or no class, why, the it her--an' the ot after her theli'l Mista Dills, I kine o' got strong notion he liable not come no mo' 'tall!" Her tone had become one of rehter "Whee!" she concluded "After las' night, I reckon thishere Mista Dills better keep away frohtful, and for the ti It was Herbert who asked: "Why'd Noble Dill better stay away fro her head "You' grarandpa?" said Herbert "What'd he do last night?"

"'Do'? Oh,of kine, whereby she meant to indicate her inability to describe Mr Atwater's performance "Well, ma'am," she said, in the low and husky voice of sirampaw beat hisse'f! He beat hisse'f!"