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Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

"Michael O'Halloran"


Why don't you swat it immediate?"
"What do you mean?" inquired Peter.
"Turn him over to me a week or two," suggested Mickey. "I can give him a
dose of working in a city that will send him hiking back to home and
father."
"It's worth considering," said Peter.
"I know that what I got of Multiopolis would make me feel like von
Hindenberg if I had the job of handling the ribbons of your creamery
wagon; and so I know about what would put sonny back on the farm, tickled
'most to death to be here."
"By gum! Well, I'll give you just one hundred dollars if you'll do it!"
exclaimed Peter. "You see my grandfather and father owned this land before
me. We've been on the plowing job so long we have it reduced to a system,
so it comes easy for me, and I take pride and pleasure in it; I had
supposed my boys would be the same. Do you really think you could manage
it?"
"Sure," said Mickey. "Only, if you really mean it, not now, nor ever, do
you want son to _know_ it. See! The medicine wouldn't work, if he knew he
took it.


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