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Poor William Todd bent his fiery face over the table and suffered the

general snicker in helpless silence Then there was quiet for a space,

broken only by the click of knives against the heavy china and the

indolent rustle of Cynthia's fly-brush

"Town so still," observed the landlord, finally, with a colance

at the dessert course of prunes to which his guests were helping

themselves from a central reservoir, "Town so still, hardly seeain Yet there's be'n sons lately:

when my shavers coo for ye, pa? I like to run 'em for you, pa,'--'relse, 'Oh, pa, ain't

they no water I can haul, or nothin', pa?'--'relse, as little Rosina T

says, this , 'Pa, I always pray fer you pa,' and pa this and pa

that-you can rely either Christ occasion to prove himself recovered from confusion,

remarked casually that there was another token of the near approach of the

circus, as ole Wilkerson was drunk again

"There's a man!" exclaimed Mr Martin with enthusiasm "There's the

feller for my money! He does his duty as a citizen more discriminatin'ly

on public occasions than any man I ever see There's Wilkerson's

celebration when there's a funeral; look at the difference between it and