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"Possibly," laughed Kate, "but I wouldn't want to become a land

shark that way Look down the road"

"Who is it?" asked Adam

"Nancy Ellen, with ht"

"All right, then ill go," said the boy, angrily "But it is a

blairl as you

have been, and the way you have worked Mother said at breakfast

there was neither sense nor justice in the way Grandpa always has

acted and she said she would wager all she orth that he would

live to regret it She said it wasn't natural, and when people

undertook to controvert -- ain't that a peach? Bet there isn't a

wo that word except Ma -- nature they always

hurt themselves worse than they hurt their victims And I bet he

does, too, and I, for one, don't care I hope he does get a good

jolt, just to pay hi so mean"

"Don't, Adam, don't!" cautioned Kate

"I mean it!" cried the boy

"I know you do That's the awful thing about it," said Kate "I

airl he has feels the same way, and from what your

father said yesterday, even the sons he favours don't feel any too

good toward him"