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"Find yo' shirt all right, Sam? " asked Mrs. Webber, from her chair under the live-oak, where she was comfortably seated with a paperback volume for company.
"It balances perfeckly, Marthy," answered Sam, with a suspicious pleasantness in his tone. "At first I was about ter be a little reckless and kick 'cause ther buttons was all off, but since I diskiver that the button holes is all busted out, why, I wouldn't go so fur as to say the buttons is any loss to speak of."