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"BLAME that pig-headed Schmidt!"
Squire Hardy was in the sitting-room talking to his wife. "To think of / his kickin' just because the little schoolma'am is bound to celebrate / the day! Her askin' for nothing except leave to use the schoolhouse! / Confound him! The rest of the Germans'd be patriotic enough -- they are / all 'round these parts -- if Schmidt wa'n't so everlastingly down on us, / and used his influence with the rest!"