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Extending an invitation to call and quench their thirsts with his raisinade when next they came to town, Tucker unlocked the door

After the two had worh the bureaus and stoves and were once , inquiring look

"Pink," de when he raised that plank?"

"Did I sot a cache of the real stuff and he gave us raisinade! I couldn't git an answer from a barrel of that He couldn't have insulted us worse if he'd slapped our faces"

"Alike that"

"You've said somethin', Gentle Annie"

The two looked at each other in an understanding that was beautiful and coood to be true--it was so exe upon this theory, the barber closed his shop early, pinned on his badge of office, and followed the, quarrelled with nobody, and drunk only an incredible quantity of soda pop, he co

At eleven, when they were still in a pool-hall playing "solo" for a cent a chip, he decided to go ho example of the benefits of prohibition had come under his observation than the conduct of this notorious pair hen sober, ell mannered and docile as laures crept stealthily up the alley behind Mr Tucker's Second-Hand Store and raised thelooking out on the areaway As noiselessly as trained burglars they pried up the plank and investigated by the light of a match

"Well, what do you think of that!"

"I feel like somebody had died and leftfor a tin cup "I didn't think they was anybody in the world as et toothe size of the drink Pinkey was pouring for hih, but never too rinned "I don't take no int'rest in startin' less'n a quart"

"I hope he'll have the decency to be ashamed of himself when he finds out we knohat he did to us I shouldn't think he'd want to look us in the face," Wallie declared, virtuously