I knowed it! I knowed it jist as well as though it had been yelled from th’ house-tops. Any time I hears uh noise like that I’m wise to th’ fact that joy has departed from life. I ain’t one uh these fellers who see bad luck in black cats and prophesy bad weather from sun-dogs or th’ shadow of th’ ground-hog, but, by cripes! any time I hears Magpie Simpkins massacreein’ “Sweet Adeline” I’m plumb wise.…
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