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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

"I don't know; leastways I kinder forget; but I think it's—"

"Sakes alive, I hope it ain't Hanner?"

"I'm sorry to say it," I says, "but Hanner's the very one."

"My goodness—and she so well only last week! Is she took bad?"

"It ain't no name for it. They set up with her all night, woman with scarf tied on head and swollen jaws, holding cup of something steaming hot
HANNER WITH THE MUMPS.

Miss Mary Jane said, and they don't think she'll last many hours."

"Only think of that, now! What's the matter with her?"

I couldn't think of anything reasonable, right off that way, so I says:

"Mumps."

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