[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link book
Elbow-Room

CHAPTER VII
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That's nothin' but pokeberry.

You've got enough pokeberry in that bed to last a million years." "Well, Mr.Hoops, come over here to this bed.

Now, how does that celery strike you?
The munificent Federal government is spreading that celery all over this land of the free.

Great, isn't it ?" "Well, well!" said Hoops; "and they shoved that off on you for celery, did they?
Too bad! It's nothin' on earth but pokeberry.

This is the California kind--the deadliest pokeberry that was ever invented." "Are you sure you're not mistaken, Mr.Hoops?
But you haven't seen my beets there in the adjoining bed.


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