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 such low creeters ort to be made examplers of. She would have been glad to had her stunned.

I myself pitied her, and in the cause of duty told Tamer when she wuz goin' on about her, I sez, "Tamer, your books have been one great cause of that poor child's ruination. When her young mind wuz a calm, innocent, restful place you jest led into it to ravage round and destroy and tromple and kick up the ground all the wild villians and wicked wimmen and guirellas that possibly could be drove into it, they went in and did their work, they destroyed all the sweet blossoms of innocence, laid waste all the tender beauty and purity they found there, and put up a wretched ideal of romantic wickedness which she strove to realize, and has, and you can set down here and watch the result, and the one that did the work is the first to condemn her." Tamer wuz mad, but I didn't care. I knew I wuz in the right on't, and I said jest the same to her about the boy, and agin Tamer Ann wuz mad, and agin I didn't care, for the same reason.