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Excerpt: ...inquired Beth, wonderingly, while Patsy and Louise tried hard not to shriek with laughter. "Wy, set em under a hen, an hatch em out." "Sir," said Beth, "I strongly disapprove of such deceptions. It seems to me that making a poor hen hatch out ducks, under the delusion that they are chickens, is one of the most cruel and treacherous acts that humanity can be guilty of. Imagine the poor things feelings when her children take to water Im surprised you could suggest such a wicked use for duck eggs." McNutt wiggled his toes again, desperately. "Cant use any sasfrass roots, can ye?" "No, indeed; all we crave is the Lives of the Saints." "Dont want to buy no land?" "What have you got to sell?" "Nuthn, jest now. But ef yell buy I kin git most anything." "Dont go to any trouble on our account, sir; we are quite content with our splendid farm." "Shoo Thet aint no good." "Captain Wegg thought it was," answered Louise, quickly seizing this opening. "Otherwise he would not have built so good a house upon it." "The Capn were plumb crazy," declared the agent, emphatically. "He didnt want ter farm when he come here; he jest wanted to hide." The girls exchanged quick glances of intelligence. "Why?" "Why?" repeated McNutt. "Thets a thing whats puzzled us fer years, miss. Some thinks Wegg were a piret; some thinks he kidnaped thet pretty wife o hisn an took her money; some thinks he tried to rob ol Will Thompson, an Will killed him an then went crazy hisself. Theres all sorts o thinks goin round; but who knows?" "Dont you, Mr. McNutt?" The agent was flattered by the question. As he had said, the Weggs had formed the chief topic of conversation in Millville for years, and no one had a more vivid interest in their history than Marshall McMahon McNutt. He enjoyed gossiping about the Weggs almost as much as he did selling books. "I never thought I had no call to stick my nose inter other folkses privit doins," he said, after a few puffs...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153589543 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153589540 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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