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gunner that was sitting in the corner of his 

 old-fashioned fireplace, loading his old Queen 

 Anne, and, just as he had the powder rammed, 

 he heard the ' houk ! ' of one of your family 

 overhead. Leaving the ramrod in to supply 

 the place of shot, he fired up the chimney, 

 and strung you up by the dozen ! Now, Gun 

 is not going to treat you so cruelly, but listen, 

 he told Pat just now that he was going to lay 

 you out in windrows. I just think that is 

 awful, and told him so. Would you think it, 

 the cruel fellow just laughed at the prospect 

 of the fun for him, without the slightest 

 consideration for you. Linger a little, and 

 you will hear more plotting. There is that 

 Pat, who always boasts of the way he knocked 

 spots out of you last April, is worse than 

 cross to think the bulk of your relations stole 

 a march on him this year, and got away before 

 he came. You can see the murder in his 

 eye by the machine he has rigged on that 

 boat to blind you. If my spectacles would 

 help you out of the terrible trouble confront- 

 ing you, my sympathy of soul would send 

 them ahead to you. Pat, by working in- 

 geniously on the generosity of his friend Gun, 



