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The man swore and looked for a cudgel.,“Huh!” grunted Moses, “your ole turkey aint worth an eyestrain.”,“O Billy!” Jean gasped, fear for the little, delicate girl in that eery place lending sympathy to her voice.,“Are you sure, my boy? I’ll go with you—”,“Mar,” he demanded hastily, “more marshed turnips, please.”,“I c’d eat a rhindoceros,” he confided to Clarence.,“We can play the first canto, ‘The Chase,’ across the river in the Sunol Creek canyon,” Billy explained, eagerly.,“I’ve not been to seek a wife,,“Here is Isobel. What kept you so late, young lady?” As Mr. Crump spoke he viewed the young girl with justifiable pride.,They all went off, a merry, noisy troop. And the disappearing sun was the last to say to Billy “Good-night.”,“Dad an’ Mosey don’t look orful happy,” she laughed. “Smile at me, Mosey.”,“O Billy,” his mother laughed, “you need not decide to-night. Besides, it was all Bess’s nonsense. I can’t quite imagine my heedless boy in a pulpit.”.