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`` In about ten minutes , though , I 'm struck by the fact that Emily 's original outburst of enthusiasm appears slightly on the wane . It seems to me she ai n't reaching out for the free-will offerings with quite so much eagersomeness as she was displaying a spell back . Also I takes notice that the wrinkles in her tum-tum are filling out so that she 's beginning to lose some of that deflated or punctured look so common amongst bulls . `` Still , I do n't have no apprehensions , but thinks to myself that any bull which can eat half a ton of hay for breakfast certainly is competent to take in a couple of wagon-loads of peanuts for five o'clock tea . Even at that I figgers that it wo n't do no harm to coach Emily along a little . '' ` Go to it , baby mine , ' I says to her . ` You ai n't hardly started .