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THE COUNTRY BOY
Marquam, a village of about forty inhabitants, not counting the town cows, some eight miles below town, where they were also having a celebration. “All right,” said Bob; so we proceeded.
We left Silverton about eleven o’clock and neglected to get anything to eat as our minds were too much on business and on the way to Marquam, I, as trainer and manager, suggested that we should have had something to eat but that now we had better postpone it
