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Much obliged, Rufe.

[He takes the pack and opens it.]

No ’casion. I’m glad to do anything I can to please Matt.

Well, I got jist one thing more fer you to do. I want you to pack up your duds an’ make tracks away from here.

[ ''is dumfounded. He looks at appealingly''.]

Matt! You ain’t a-goin’ to turn him off at this time o’ year?

Course I am. I didn’t adopt him fer life when I hired him. I told him he could stay tell Sid come back.

But he cain’t git another clerkin’ job. An’ it’s too late to start a crap now.

He’d orter thought o’ that afore. He’s knowed fer a month that Sid wus comin’ home.