The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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mall pail of the precious fluid. They both stopped stock still; then

tered Ralph as they

she gaily replied, and was movi

Gately's, of New York, do you?

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and took the water up

at Ralph had been met halfway, but her eyes snapped when

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