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"You know when I come back, you see it was so
cussed hot, yer know I said it was the heat, but I knew they wuz there.
Mrs. Mason, told me."
"Did she?" asked Abner, with wide-opened eyes. "I thought it was one on
you."
"When I went down to the road before the bugle was blown," said Strout,
"Mrs. Mason told me they was there. You see, Huldy didn't suspect
nothin' about the party and so she asked them over to tea. She sorter
expected they would go right after tea, but they got singin' songs and
tellin' stories, and Huldy saw they had come to stay."
"But," said Abner, "that city feller must have known all about it
aforehand or how could he git that cake and frozen stuff down from
Bosting so quick?"
"Didn't you say," said Strout, "that you seen them going over to
Eastborough Centre about five o'clock?"
"Yes," replied Abner, "but how did he know when it was? Some one must
have told him, I guess."
"There are times, Abner Stiles," exclaimed Strout, "when you are too
almighty inquisitive."
"Wall, I only wanted to know, so I could tell the truth when folks asked
me," said Abner.


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