`` Are they crossing at Malley 's Creek yet ? '' asked Plowden . `` No , Jack Carr got in there day before yesterday . Nearly lost his mare . I came round by the main road , '' responded Bruce . The door opened at this point and Tony Mack came in . As soon as he closed the door he doubled up in a fit of chuckles , which lasted until he was purple in the face . `` Is the man crazy ? '' demanded Plowden , who had never seen lean little Tony visited like this before . `` Crazy nothin ' , '' retorted Tony . `` You 'll laugh too , when you hear it . Such a joke ! Hee-tee-tee-hee-e . Theodora Whitney has been badgering Judith Stewart so much about bein ' an old maid that Judith 's got mad and vowed she 'll marry the first man that asks her . Hee-tee-tee-hee-e-e-e ! My old woman was there and heard her . She 'll keep her word , too . She ai n't old Joshua Stewart 's daughter for nothin ' . If he said he 'd do a thing he did it if it tuck the hair off . If I was a young feller now !
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