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"Go away?" Louise demanded.
"Yes. Like poor old Jerry, mebbe," said Cap'n Abe, looking at the
caged bird. "Mebbe I'll be glad to come back again--and in a hurry.
But while Cap'n Am'zon is here I can take a vacation that I've long
hankered for, Niece Louise. I--I got my plans all made."
"Don't for one moment think of changing them on my account," Louise
said briskly. "I shall like Uncle Amazon immensely if he's anything
like you, Cap'n Abe."
"He--he ain't so _much_ like me," confessed the storekeeper. "Not in
looks he ain't. But hi-mighty! I know he'll be as pleased as Punch to
see ye."
"Are you sure of that?"
"Wait till you see how he takes to ye," declared her reassuring uncle.
"Now, lemme git my apern on and set to work on supper."
"Can't I help, Cap'n Abe?"
"In them things?" the storekeeper objected.
"Well--I'll have plenty of house dresses when my trunks come. I left
my checks at the station for a man named Perry Baker. They said he'd
bring them over to-night."
"He will," Cap'n Abe assured her.


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