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possible circulation of air. Even the
cellar door, near which the doctor sat,
with his saddle-bags on his knee, stood
wide open. The snuff-taking operation
was drawing toaclose. The great red
bandanna handkerchief, with diamond-
shaped spots of dingy white, had been
withdrawn from its place of deposit,
and was doing important service, when a
huge turkey stalked into the room, and
marched fiercely up to the doctor.

The saucy fellow! he ought to have
been served up at the Thanksgiving that
occurred the previous autumn. Whata
pity he was spared. He had formed a
habit, it afterward appeared in evidence,