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I ain't no pup and you're a gambling lowlife who let her get stolen, Dish said coolly. I wouldn't care to, Jake said. I seen him trick her once, Lippy said, remembering the extraordinary wager he had witnessed. I would not have thought Mary would give up her mare, he said.

He even slept within the sound of Pea Eye's snoring, which was as regular as the ticking of a clock. They're real poor, Captain. Dern you, why can't you talk? he said one night as she was making the campfire. It ain't the boy's fault.