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for weeks afterwards. It appeared, so Green said, that Ginger hed hed severe trouble over a girl in Mizzoura who loved some other chap better. And whether Ginger killed him or not I can't say. Green didn't know, but he opined that the intrusive lover was not calculated to shine as a professional beauty after Ginger had got through with him; and he said Ginger should be a son to him, which was curious, for Green had a son, and by no means was much of a father to him save in the matter of cowhidin' the boy, which led to young Green shiftin' camp and goin' to Arizona. And when Ginger was fit he ran around with old Green and jined in his business, and got very popular by reason of his ways. I reckon he soon got over the melancholy that rose up in him at the thought of the Mizzoura gal; for, as you may hev noticed, a bright red head and a yaller beard inspires great interest in women for some reason deep in nature with which I hev no sympathy, although I'm one of them that admires Gillett. I admire him in spite of his redness, and the women-folk seem to admire him for it, which is redik'lus,
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