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for you would n't be wantin' electric-bells and bills-o'-fare in such outlandish regions.
Skippin' the months when we was just gettin' acquainted with their ways, I 'll get on to the adventure part. I 'll say no more than that we lived in clover, till Cook he begun to be homesick. I did n't mind it myself.