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taking the fish in his hand he gazed at it long and fear- 

 fully, muttering to himself: 



"F>r de Lawd's sake! fore de Lawds, dat shore am a 

 cat! But Lawd a massy how he am shrunk; shorely, 

 when I weighed dat ar cat afore, dar inus' hab ben 

 one poun' ob fish an' twenty-nine poun's ob whisky." 



