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such nonsense, 

 I guess you'll 

 find yourself 

 much mistak- 

 en. Why, I'd 

 be willin' to 

 pay you 

 dollar apiece 

 for all you 

 can shoot over 

 them things." 

 <>u shall 

 have achat* 

 I said, some- 

 what nettled. 



" When you ride out to your plowing in the morning, come to 

 my stand, and you may have an opportunity to invest your small 

 cham 



When at last it was light enough to distinguish objects about 

 me. I had been at my post in the corn-field a full hour, almost 

 breathless with expectation. What if the cram s should fail to 

 come, and I be compelled to return to the house emptj -handed 

 and face my more fortunate companions, the distant report of 

 whose guns had been repeatedly borne to me from the direction 



