Chapter XVII

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He picked a' old tramp up, one trip,
'bout eighty mile'd from here,
And fetched him home and k-yored his
hip, and kep' him 'bout a year;
And feller said--in all _his_ ja'nts
round this terreschul ball
'At no man wuz a _circumstance_
to _Doc_!--he topped 'em all!--