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I found a very bad omen, one of the worst. My book nailed to a tree in the pine woods had fallen down. I had decided that the nail rusted away and the book—it was a little notebook of our father's, where he used to record the names of people who owed him money, and people who ought, he thought, to do favors for him—was useless now as protection.