“Well, they was gonna stick her out when the bank come to tractorin’ off the place. Your grampa stood out here with a rifle, an’ he blowed the headlights off that cat’, but she come on just the same. Your grampa didn’t wanta kill the guy drivin’ that cat’, an’ that was Willy Feeley, an’ Willy knowed it, so he jus’ come on, an’ bumped the hell outa the house. Ol’ Tom jas’ stood there a-cussin’, but it didn’t do him no good. When he sees that cat’ come a-bustin’ through the house, an’ give her a shake like a dog shakes a rat—well, it took somepin outa Tom. Kinda got into ’im. He ain’t been the
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