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peculiar dignity and matronliness to it. The hair was a sort of brown-
gray, and combed toward the top of her head. She was bare-footed. When
Bony had taken his seat, and was slipping his shoes on his bare, dirty feet,
she went hack into the kitchen. Once or twice the visitors caught a glimpse
of her making a few swipes with the hroom, standing in the bed-room door.
Once she told Bony what somehody had said; for Bony is hard of hearing.

Bony could have heen a handsome man, and may have heen. His hair
once was black and curly. Now his hair is in ringlets the size of two-
bit coins. It grows thickly on his head, this hair does. It comes down
to his ear, and his sideburns, almost white, curl. His profile is good,
straight, and shows the traces of handsomeness. With good clothes, a clean
shave, a good hair cut, and clean clothes he'd look younger than his 69 years.

When Bony shook hands, it was like taking a cloven hoof. He was so
sleepy, it was hard to get him to talk, and everybody knows he is a hard
talker.

But Bony's brother didn't have any trouble in talking. He was a year
younger, but looked older. He was minus teeth, and the Winchester profile
was destroyed by a severe dip just below the nose.

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