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"FER some reason cats don't prosper 'ere," said the packer, leisurely cutting his string, and locating his "chew" in one cheek as a preliminary to discourse. "The climit 'r somethin'don't agree with 'em,'n' they alwiz come to huntimely ends."
"Manslaughter?" queried the town traveller, who had noticed Mills' fatal facility with a pound-weight.