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Oh, he was being queer and careful, pawing about in the drawer and holding the bottle like a snake at the length of his arm.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

There was no way of getting even.

It wasn't like getting cheated at the fair.

They were always trying so you got to expect it.

Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;

but since she didn't know we'd given it to her, there was no easy way of getting it back.