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PLATO was removing the tray from the wicker table in the garden. The colonel, sitting under his horse-chestnut, observed the operation thoughtfully, smoking one of his big cigars.
"Yessuh, if yo' wants to buy a horse yo' can hab it cheap -- dat's what Job Wills says. He was down to Miz Carter's dis mornin' talkin' to dat yaller girl, Mirandy. She done tole me. It am a good horse, col'nel, only got dat habit ob rollin' in de water."