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Enuff! I 'clare, he neber 'lowed he had it yet, an' I guess he neber will."

Still Winny did grieve deeply for the loss of her friends with a genuine sorrow, for which not all the liberal provision they had made for the support of herself and her father in their declining years could compensate. Not even Alice's last laughing injunction to her to "be sure and let old Drosky have as much to eat as was good for him," could bring to the dark face of the sorrowing old woman one of her broadly good-natured smiles.