Chapter LXV

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And Doc he's allus had a knack
_inventin'_ things.--Dee-vised
A windlass wound its own se'f back
as it run down: and s'prised
Their new hired girl with _clothes-line_, too,
and _clothes-pins_, all in _one_:
Purt'-nigh all left fer _her_ to do
wuz git her _primpin'_ done!