You were born of ropery, and you go at it straight, like a webfoot to water.
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The Professor answered them in the Surly Manner peculiar to Showmen accustomed to meet a webfoot Population.
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Oh, yes,-he named the deepest place known-the sight of those webfoot boys to-day was too much for me; I'm going; and Dick, when I told her I was going- Told whom?
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