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Lester was glad to see Mattie Farnham come bustling in the very afternoon of the day she returned from Maine. He liked Mattie -- indeed he almost loved her -- in spite of the fact that so far as he had been able to ascertain she had never yet understood anything he ever said to her. They did not use at all the same vocabulary, but they held friendly communication by means of sign-language, like a dog and cat who have grown up in the same house and have an old affection for each other.
"Hello there, Mattie," he welcomed her, as she entered. "How are the potatoes in Maine? Ours have spots in them."