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Jenks Hollis sat on the fence. He slowly turned the quid of tobacco in his cheek, and lifting up his voice spoke with an oracular drawl: --
"Ef he kin take the certif'cate it's the mos' ez he kin do. He ain't never a-goin' ter git no premi-_um_ in this life, sure 's ye air a born sinner."