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Rudder Grange

CHAPTER XV
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'Let it be random.

Earl an' Earl-ess Random.

Come along.' "So we walks about, I feelin' mighty noble an' springy, an' afore long we sees another couple a-walkin' about under the trees.
"'Who's them ?' says I.
"'Don't know,' says he, 'but I expect they're some o' the other boarders.

The man said he had other boarders when I spoke to him about takin' us.' "'Let's make-believe they're a count an' count says I.'Count an' Countess of--' "'Milwaukee,' says he.
"I didn't think much of this for a noble name, but still it would do well enough, an' so we called 'em the Count an' Countess of Milwaukee, an' we kep' on a meanderin'.

Pretty soon he gets tired an' says he was agoin' back to the house to have a smoke because he thought it was time to have a little fun which weren't all imaginations, an' I says to him to go along, but it would be the hardest thing in this world for me to imagine any fun in smokin'.


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