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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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-old boy? Troubles, at that age, aremighty real and blighting for a minuteor so. Im glad to hear you say that, El-bert, I said. 4 I hope youll always besuspicious of women from this on; es-pecially the low-flung Euphemy Rickettskind. Women, as a whole, are mightycunning and scheming creatures, Elbert,I said. I speak from an intimateknowledge of em. One of em can make your life aheaven on earth, if shes the right kind,or she can make it a terrible sight of aburden for you if shes a mind to. Runalong now, Elbert, I said, and be agood boy. Euphemy Ricketts aint worththe wrappings of your little finger, justyou bear that in mind. Well, sir, Elbert was as good as hisword; he never went about Euphemyagain. I guess he inherited a lot ofJasons stubbornness, as Sophie said, andhe had a sight of pride, too. He couldntget over her lying to him. As the weeks went by he graduallygot over his melancholiness and began towhistle and sing around the house again,Sophie said, as he had been in the habit
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FREEMAN, I WHISPERED, WHO TELL ME THE TRUTH WHO DID SHE MARRY of doing. Euphemy sent him a lot ofword during all this time and evenwrote him a letter, which Sophie hap-pened to get hold of first so he never gotto see it. Then Euphemy gave him- up as abad job and set her cap for a hired manover to Mr. John Jenkinses and Elbertstarted to going with Mamie Scott;Sophie and I commenced to breathe easy,then. There never was a gratefullerhuman being than Sophie, either; shecouldnt say and do enough for me forwhat Id done toward rescuing Elbertfrom Euphemys clutches; she told it farand wide. Euphemy got to hear of my havinga hand in Elberts quitting her andEuphemy was never anybody to beataround the bush about anything. Shecome to me one night after prayer-meet-ing in the High Grove church and saidpoint-blank: 1 I hear youve told Elbert Smith a pack of lies about me, Harriet Colburn. Euphemy Ricketts, I said, calm and unexcited, I dont have to tell lies 167 on anybody, much less you. The trut

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