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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
A-DEMANDIN LICKER FROM MARIE'
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trick you ever did see, when she whirled in to run the general store over to Painted Post. Which was all there was for her to do, when her pa and ma died and left her all alone, that-a-way, ' ' Hank hastened to say, as tho defending her memory. "He was a right smart of a good looker, if his name ivas Smithers."
' ' She thought a whole lot of me, an' never held my name agin me none. Hadn't been for Smithers, I reckon
I " Pedro began, softly, whereat
Hank scowled menacingly.
' ' You reckon you
Shucks! You mean you reckon I would 'a' "
"Oh, well, one of us, anyhow," Pedro offered, conciliatingly, and Hank let it go at that.
"Seems like 'tain't no more than yesterday that I blew into that store/' Hank presently continued, "an' there was Marie standin' back o' the counter, smilin' like, but askin'
huh?
real business-like what I'd have. Shucks! I plumb forgot what I did want — which I was reminded that it was bakin' powder when the biscuits was flat an ' hard as a Mex dollar that night — an' I just stood a-staring with admiration like, an' she asked me again, sorter sharp, what I would have. There was a rackful of pipes on the counter, so I said I wanted a pipe, an' in less'n no time I was outside with a pipe in my pocket. ' '
"He needed a pair o' pants mighty bad, an' rid all the way to Lacy's, forty miles, 'cause he couldn't think of ' trousers,' an' didn't think it was ladylike to ask for pants," Pedro sniggered.
"Which the instincts of a gentleman is plumb past the comprehension of some folks, ' ' Hank retorted loftily, but Pedro dicTnot regard him.
"I needed some tobacco, and went to the store to get it, next day, ' ' he was saying. "I know it was next