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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...HE HE HE HE A YOUNG FELLOW, a tobacco pedlar by trade, was on his way from Morristown, where he had dealt largely with the Dea- con of the Shaker sett... ...to hear the news and anxious to tell it again. After an early breakfast at Morristown, the tobacco pedlar, whose name was Dominicus Pike, had travelle... ...that place, though business had drawn him out of the most direct road from Morristown. As he approached the scene of the supposed murder, he contin- u... ...ace all the way from Bartlett.” 177 Hawthorne “Then you are going towards Vermont?” said the master of the house, as he helped to take a light knapsa... ...o and fro con- tinually: sometimes announcing the arrival of a sleigh from Vermont, laden with the frozen bodies of porkers, or sheep, and perhaps a d...

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