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THE COUNTRY BOY 



evenings before I went to work, but they 

 proved unsatisfactory. So I decided to 

 w^ait until the next Saturday afternoon, when 

 there were going to be some prizes given. I 

 went early that afternoon, fairly groomed for 



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~ J 



the occasion; I felt fit like a trained athlete. 

 I rented a pair of No. 10^ os and went to work; 

 had been going about an hour, when the world 

 seemed pretty serious; in fact, I had fallen 

 so often that it had ceased to be a joke. My 

 hair was slightly mussed on the back of my 

 head and I had seen about half a dozen quick 



