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"You fool! You great big dunderheaded fool!" cried Mrs Holt

"Now you have done it, for the thousandth time She will start

out in less than no time to find some place else to stay, an' who

could blame her? Don't you knoho she is? Ain't you sense in

your head? If there was ever a girl you ort to go after, and go

quick an' hard, there she is!"

"What? That big beef! What for?" asked George

"You idjit! You idjit! Don't you sense that she's a daughter of

Ada Ain't you sense ner

reason? Drive her from the house, will you? An' me relyin' on

sendin' you half her board money to help you out? You fool!"

"Why under the Heavens didn't you tell er but the bowl is upset, and it's all your fault She should

be worth ten thousand, ot it frum a letter she

wrote to her brother I'd no chanct to tell you Course I o to work an upset everything

before I get a chanct You never did a, an' you

never will"

"Oh, well, now stop that I didn't know I thought she was just

coht after supper Now

shut up"

"You can't do it! It's gone too far She'll leave the house

inside fifteen minutes," said Mrs Holt

"Well, I'll just show you," he boasted

George Holt pushed back his plate, wiped hisplace on the back porch, and sauntered around