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Pee-wee Harris

CHAPTER V
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And what on earth is that saucepan for?
Are you going to cook us all alive?
Did you ever see such a thing ?" she added, speaking to Uncle Ebenezer who had stepped forward to welcome his nephew.
"He's all decked out like a carnival! He's just too killing!" She then proceeded to embrace him while his martial paraphernalia clanked and rattled.
"We won't need any more brass band," said a young girl in a gingham apron and with brick red hair in long tightly woven braids, who stood close by; "he's a melodeon.

I don't see what they sent such a big car for with such a little boy.

'Taint no fit, it ain't." Pee-wee gave this girl a withering look which she boldly returned, continuing to stare at him.

Her face was covered with freckles and she was so unqualifiedly plain and homely in face and attire that she might be said to have been attractive on the ground of novelty.
"Pepsy," said Mrs.Quig, addressing her, "you shake hands with Walter and tell him you and he are going to be good friends.

You come right here and do as I say now and no more of those looks." "I ain't going to kiss him," the girl said by way of compromising.
"You give him a welcome just like Wiggle is doing," said Aunt Jamsiah, "and be ashamed that you have to learn your manners from such as he.


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