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Show I IfAJ) .·hut the door io. Thc'n I i tuned aronud, and ilH'r<' he wa... I nscd to bP scan·<l of h in 1 < tll 1 h c' i i 1n <', h n 1 ;nln<'d lTIC' so 1nnch. I rec koncd I wa. · ~en red 11ow, too ; bnt in a 111i nut e I seC' 1 wa: 1ni~iakc•n. Tlwt JS, afrer i he· fi n.;r joJt, ns yon 1nay say, when Jn,Y brc'ai h . 'Ort of hi i ch<'d -lH' being .'O nn<'X]> P tecl; but right away aft c·r, I S0<' 1 warn ·L sci\ red of J1i 111 \rori h Loth ring about. l[t' was Jnosl fifly, ,, 1'.\ 1'." an<l he Jooked jt. ]lis ]lair wa: lm:cr a11cl tm1gl<'ll and grca y, and lnn1g do\Yn, and .von c nhl ·· <' lu: <'.YP.' shining through like h<' \ras lwhincl YinPs. Tt wa: all black no OT'"'~" • 0 · . h' 1 · 1 1 · 1 ' b ".", · \\D 1 ong, llllX<'C-np ". us,<·rs. (There warn't no c·o 1o u1 · 1· n b 1· ~ f 3.cc, wh ere ln· · fac.:e sho\red ; 1. t "P.. A P." t')' I was whit ; 11ot like another Jnan\; whit<', but a whit<' to 1nakc· a body sick, a whit<' to 1uak a body's flp:h ·rawl-a tr<' -toad whit, a fish-b<'lly whitP. A.- for his clothes -jn~t rag~, that. \ra: all. 1 [e ha<l 011 c an kl rp ting 011 foth<'r kn<'P ; t ht' boot on that fooL wa.· busted, and two of his tops f.itndz tlnoncrb, and h \vorl«'<l t h<'lll now and ilH'll. 1 [i.· hat wa~ laying on thefloor; an ol<l hlatk slouch with the top C<lV<'d in, likt> <t. licl. I . tood <t-looking at hitn; h with hi~ chair Lilt <·d bark a little. : L th 'r a-l ook ing at Ill<', I :cL th<' tancliC' <lown. 1 noticPcl th "·in<low \Yas 11p; J[c k pta-looking 1n all O\' "~ ta.rchy clot h<'s- \·cry. a big-bug, (lon'l you~ ., so he had elun1h in l>y the ~ht• ( l. r. By-and-by h<' say~ : l?ou think you\·' il gootl <leal of '' l\Iaybc· L ~uu, Jll:l.)'hC I ai11't;' I sny . . "Don!L yon gi,·c llH' none o' your lip;' say · h1·. " ·You\·<' put on con ' iclcrble 1nany frills . incc I been away. l'll Ltk(' you do\Yn a 1wg before l geL cl n with yon. )-ou 'r' <lucal<'d, too, they ay; ti\11 l'(':Hl antl write. ) ron think yon\ beUer·n your fath r, now, dm1'L yon, hccans<' he can·t ~ I'll take' it ntd of you. \\rho tol<l yon you 1nirrhL 1ned<llc \vith ·neh hifalut'11 fooli hne ·~·, h y ( - who told you yon coul<l? '' "Th \vidow. She tolcltne.'' "Th \Yi<low, hry '!- and \vho told th widow :he conl (l put in h r shov 1 about a t bing that ain'L none of her bu:inc~s '! · "Nobody Jl 'ver t olcl h •r.'' "vY ell, 1 'Jl 1 earn 1H'f how to ll1Ctltll . And looky ]H'l'Cyou drop that ~dlnol, you l1car? Ill learn pcopl i.o hring np a hoy to puL on :1 ir~ o\·cr hi:-; wn faLh ran ell ton to be h 'ti L'r· n \vhat he i:. l ?un lennn' atch von foolinrr around i haL .·chool v 0 :1gain, y n h ar ( ) r our n1othcr conhln'L r cct<l, a11cl . he c ulcln"t 'n·it nuthcr, b'Core :h cli'<l. ron' of the f(unily eoul<ln't, before the!J died. 1 can't; and here ou'rc a- ·w lling vour Tlf |