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approve of it.



"What," she says, "would Dud Wingle want with Miz' Sigafoos?"



"I don't know, ma'am," I say. "Wasn't he the gentleman you was kicking from here toScranton?"



"Shucks, Bub, that was just a figger of speech. If I'd of wanted to kick him from here toScrantonI'd of
done it. Dud and Jim and Ab and Sime think they got a right to shoot your dog if he chases the deer. I'm
a peaceable woman or I'd have the law on them for shootin' Grip. But maybe I did kind of lose my
temper." She looked worrieder yet.
 "Is something wrong, ma'am?" I ask. You never can tell, but a lot of old dames talk to me like I was their
uncle; to tell you the truth this is my biggest problem in a cathouse. It must be because I am a kind of
thoughtful guy and it shows.



Mrs. Parry is no exception. She says to me: "You don't know the folks up here yet, Bub, so you don't
know about Miz' Sigafoos. I'm old English stock so I don't



hold with their foolishness, but——" And here she looked real worried. "Miz' Sigafoos is what they call
a hex doctor."



"What's that, ma'am?"



"Just a lot of foolishness. Don't you pay any attention," she says, and then she has to concentrate on the
driving. We are turning off the two-lane state highway and going up, up, up into the hills, off a blacktop
road, off a gravel road, off a dirt road. No people. No houses. Fences and cows or maybe horses, I
can't tell for sure. Finally we are at her place, which is from wood and in two buildings. I start
automatically for the building that is clean, new-painted, big and expensive.



"Hold on, Bub," she says. "No need to head for the barn first thing. Let's get you settled in the house first
and then there'll be a plenty of work for you."



I do a double take and see that the big, clean, expensive building is the barn. The little, cheap, rundown