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And besides, 'twouldn't do any
good; they'd ketch him again."
"Yes-so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the
dickens when he never done-that."
"I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the bloodiest looking
villain in this country, and they wonder he wasn't ever hung before."
"Yes, they talk like that, all the time.