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LONESOME HILL
some cloud, thanked God as this slender, white-haired soul with star shine in her face, hurried over the fields with an old volume pasted full of quaint remedies.
She made a call of another kind—just once—when the "Hitchenses" brought the first organ to "Cold Friday."
She remained only long enough to go straight to the cabinet, which the assembled neighbors regarded with distant awe, and play several pieces "without the book." On her leaving with the same quiet indifference, Mrs. Ephraim Fivecoats peered owlishly toward Mrs. Rome Lukens and rendered the following upon her favorite instrument:
"Well! if that woman ever gits the fever an' gits deliriums, I want
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