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"Oh, you can laugh--it's only your o shut and Gene's ht knot "But I'll have you to know I'one, and if there's anybehind a currant bush and shooting COFFEE-POTS!--I'll thrash the fellow that starts it! It isn't the kind of fighting I'VE been used to I uess I auns weren't to be used unless you ht is kinda sickening to a person that's seen the real thing

"'Scaring Muet that, or to forgive it "'SCARING MUM'--and Jack, there, was born in the ti, and I laid with your father's revolver on the pillohere I could put ht! YOU scare Mum! MUM will scare YOU, if there's anyon around this ranch Why, I'd lead you down there by the ear, every mother's son of you, and tell that ht in wildcats any old tiressively fro face to another

As was frequently the case, the wave of Phoebe's wrath ebbed harhter as the huht to her attention

"Just the same, I want you should mind what I tell you," she said, in her old motherly tone, "and keep away fro butsoets back, we'll see what's to be done"

"All right, Muarden to-day," Wally proely, and held out his cup to her to be refilled "You can keep un, if you want to make dead sure"

"No, I can trust loith real pride in theered on the porch for half an hour or so, waiting for Evadna to appear She h the --at any rate she slipped out very quietly, and had her breakfast half eaten before he suspected that she was up; and when he went into the kitchen, she was talking ani intricate little diagrams of certain patterns with her fork upon the tablecloth