"
"All Ike's property to-day ain't as val'able to me now as that cent was
then," Mr. Holmes answered solemnly. "It was the val'ablest cent I
ever owned. I never expect to have another I'd hate so to see
palpitatin' in Isaac Bolum's th'oat between his Adam's apple and his
collar-band."
"We're gittin' away from the subject," said Josiah. "You're draggin'
up a personal quarrel between you and Isaac Bolum, when we was
discussin' the great problem that confronts every scholar in his
day--that of thrashin' the teacher."
"It's a problem no scholar ever solved in the history of this walley,
anyway," declared Elmer Spiker.
"It ain't on the records," said Kallaberger.
"There are le-gends," Isaac Bolum said. He pointed at Henry Holmes
with his thumb. "Sech as his."
"Yes," said Josiah Nummler, "we have sech le-gends, comin' mostly from
the Indians and Henery Holmes. But there's one I got from my pap when
I was a boy, and I allus thought it one of the most be-yutiful fairy
stories I ever heard--of course exceptin' them in the Bible.
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