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BORROWING THINGS.
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he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

Mornings, before daylight, I slipped into corn-fields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no boy holding chicken by its neck
HE SOMETIMES LIFTED A CHICKEN.

harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime; but the widow said it wara't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more

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