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Of course, he now fell back on his own unfailing gospel.
"See? " said he to the cockeyed world, "that jes' goes to show y', see? One mo' sheba, that's all. Mo' different they look, less different they are. Bet he offered her a stick o' candy or sump'm. And here I come near gettin' excited jes' lookin' at her. Can y' beat it?"