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Havin' lived next door to the Hobart place f'r goin' on thirty years, I / calc'late that I know jest about ez much about the case ez anybody else / now on airth, exceptin' perhaps it's ol' Jedge Baker, and he's so plaguy / old 'nd so powerful feeble that _he_ don't know nothin'.
It seems that in the spring uv '47 -- the year that Cy Watson's oldest boy / wuz drownded in West River -- there come along a book-agent sellin' volyumes / 'nd tracks f'r the diffusion uv knowledge, 'nd havin' got the recommend of / the minister 'nd uv the selectmen, he done an all-fired big business in / our part uv the county. His name wuz Lemuel Higgins, 'nd he wuz ez likely / a talker ez I ever heerd, barrin' Lawyer Conkey, 'nd everybody allowed / that when Conkey wuz round he talked so fast that the town pump 'u'd have / to be greased every twenty minutes.