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They took Boggs to a little drug store, the crowd pressing around, just the same,

and the whole town following, and I rushed and got a good place at the window,

where I was close to him and could see in. They laid him on the floor, and put one

large Bible under his head, and opened another one and spread it on his breast-

but they tore open his shirt ssssssssss

first, and I seen where one of ssssssssss

the bullets went in. He made ssssssssss

about a dozen long gasps, his ssssssssss

breast lifting the Bible up when ssssssssss

he drawed in his breath, and ssssssssss

letting it down again when he ssssssssss

breathed it out -- and after that ssssssssss

he laid still; he was dead. ssssssssss

Then they pulled his daughter ssssssssss

away from him, screaming and ssssssssss

crying, and took her off. She ssssssssss

was about sixteen, and very ssssssssss

sweet and gentle-looking, but ssssssssss

awful pale and scared. ssssssssss

Well, pretty soon the whole

town was there, squirming and ssssssssss

scrouging and pushing and ssssssssss

shoving to get at the window ssssssssss

and have a look, but people ssssssssss

that had the places wouldn't ssssssssss

give them up, and folks behind ssssssssss

them was saying all the time," Say, now, you've looked enough, you fellows;

'taint right and 'taint fair, for you to stay thar all the time, and never give

nobody a chance; other folks has their rights as well as you."

There was considerable jawing back, so I slid out, thinking maybe there was

going to be trouble. The streets was full, and everybody was excited. Every-

body that seen the shooting was telling how it happened, and there was a big

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