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1  'All but the crazy boy,' Jake put in.
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2  Jake roused me and took me by the hand.
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3  Jake's experience of the world was not much wider than mine.
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4  Before we went to bed, Jake and Otto were called up to the living-room for prayers.
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5  Jake nodded at me approvingly and said you were likely to get diseases from foreigners.
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6  When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
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7  After breakfast grandmother and Jake and I bundled ourselves up and climbed into the cold front wagon-seat.
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8  Jake helped grandmother to the ground, saying he would bring the provisions after he had blanketed his horses.
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9  Jake got on the front seat with Otto Fuchs, and I rode on the straw in the bottom of the wagon-box, covered up with a buffalo hide.
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10  I can still see those two men sitting on the bench; Otto's close-clipped head and Jake's shaggy hair slicked flat in front by a wet comb.
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11  Now, Jake,' grandmother was saying, 'if you can find that old rooster that got his comb froze, just give his neck a twist, and we'll take him along.
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12  But after the men came in from the fields, and we were all seated at the supper table, then she asked Jake about the old place and about our friends and neighbours there.
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13  I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the 'hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.'
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14  Jake and Otto were sure that when they galloped round that ring the Indians tortured prisoners, bound to a stake in the centre; but grandfather thought they merely ran races or trained horses there.
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15  Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.
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16  Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a 'Life of Jesse James,' which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read.
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17  While grandmother and I washed the dishes and grandfather read his paper upstairs, Jake and Otto sat on the long bench behind the stove, 'easing' their inside boots, or rubbing mutton tallow into their cracked hands.
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