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“There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.”
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- Source:
- Ch. 18
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6244a8e02ddef1b9f1767dae910fc1d8d2689cdb949eacda273ec36695601ecd
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