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"bass" is gone. Along towards
night he begins to hustle to get
ready for the dock. It seems
an interminable length of time
before the come-pitch dark and
I send Maud out with the lantern.
Soon Sr comes hugging in a great
box of groceries which he deposits
on the table. Said he called at
Rachels and left them a plug
of tobaco 10 cts. I told him "they
would want some thing more
than terbacker to chow" He
said he did not care a dam.
Well I said 'Come along to
your super' so he and Tom
'sat'. He said Bob Reid
and Dick Irvine are mad-
both of them, mad as the devil.
I asked, What for? He