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McTeague

CHAPTER 6
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She suddenly realized what this was that was annoying her.
"Owgooste, will you sit down ?" She caught him up all at once, and jammed him down into his place.

"Be quiet, den; loog; listun at der yunge girls." Three young women and a young man who played a zither occupied the stage.

They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about "mountain tops" and "bold hunters" and the like.
The yodling chorus was a marvel of flute-like modulations.

The girls were really pretty, and were not made up in the least.

Their "turn" had a great success.


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