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Penrod

CHAPTER XXVI THE QUIET AFTERNOON
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"You go' PREACH ?" "Yes," answered Georgie, looking like Saint Cecilia at the organ.
Herman was impressed.

"You know all 'at preachuh talk ?" "I'm going to learn it," said Georgie simply.
"How loud kin you holler ?" asked Herman doubtfully.
"He can't holler at all," Penrod interposed with scorn.

"He hollers like a girl.

He's the poorest hollerer in town!" Herman shook his head.

Evidently he thought Georgie's chance of being ordained very slender.


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