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Kennicott was cordial to Fern Mullins, teased her, told her he was a "great hand for running off with pretty schoolteachers," and promised that if the school-board should object to her dancing, he would "bat 'em one over the head and tell 'em how lucky they were to get a girl with some go to her, for once."
But to Erik Valborg he was not cordial. He shook hands loosely, and said, "H' are yuh."