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LavucHING Boy 111 | —ecv said. Then we had ourselves purified from =e blood, and we spent several dollars on canned . Ted. I bought a big paper bag, as big as a hat, | x of all different kinds of candy, and went home, | =: we all ate it. When I was telling about what happened, I Lz to the part about thinking I was shot, and I | ==-ted to laugh. I could not stop, I just laughed. 3 they started calling me by that name. That is lim Girl said, ‘I am glad you are a man like | =z: She thought to herself, he is a warrior. | T=:: was worth ten thousand schools. He must | x: been about eighteen. Where is basketball | aziast that? ITI . -=iore supper there was the well-mixed drink | a=. with its attendant elation and the curious | =z at the back of his teeth. He finished the w= © should like to take some more of that.’ “zat is not a good thing to do.’ ov not?’ © I wou take too much you become foolish. You | g—~ old before your time.’ ‘Tzat would not be good. Perhaps it would be @=—=< not to take any. You do not take it.’

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