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This business about being closed is an irritation. E don'tnever take 'is coat orf, not never and not particular neverat this time, when the weather is inclement and comin' upto Christmas. Oh, Gawd, not another one! Mary thought, casting hermind to the dreadful Potbottom. tle looking as fresh as if he'd slept all night, when in fact he had probably played poker till one or two o'clock.

Only we won't be serving it up for about twenty-four hours. Now he was hearing it, standing with his shirttail half tucked in, while someone else was making it with Lorena. As though by sometinct, the remaining rats rushed at the weak- and pulled her down. 'It's not fair, I could learn it, I couldso!' Ann began to sob, though more in anger at not gettingher way, than in distress.