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Jerome, A Poor Man

CHAPTER XIV
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"Look at 'em.

You can't see much of anything here but them two men.

Much as ever you can see the meetin'-house steeple.

There are a few left, so you can see who they be, like Squire Merritt an' Lawyer Means; but, Lord, they'd better not get too careless huntin' and fishin' and card-playin', or they'll git hauled in, partridges, cards, an' all.

But I'll tell you what 'tis--about all that anybody can see in this town is the eyes an' the arms of them two men, a-suckin' and graspin'.
"Doctor Prescott, he's a church member, too, an' he gives tithes of his widders an' orphans to the Lord.


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