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"We htfully, "there is the

Thursday issue of this week to be prepared, almost at once"

"Don't! Please don't mention that, Fisbee!" Parker tilted far back in

his chair with his feet anchored under the desk, preserving a precarious

balance "I ain't as grateful for ht be I'uess," he rerinations of a fly on his companion's sleeve

Mr Fisbee twisted up another sheet, and e

the course of a crack in the plaster, a slender black aperture which

staggered across the dusty ceiling and down the dustier wall to disappear

behind a still dustier map of Carlow County "That's the trouble!"

exclai the other's preoccupation "Soon as you get to

writing a line or two that seein to take a

h copy for ht days, to have filled her up twenty tiain I turned my back on it, but there

wasn't any use in that, because if a fly lights on you I watch hiht a ood"