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He had that joyful light of combat in them blue eyes of his , an ' he looked at that bunch of paintless houses that was dumped around the Gallops Junction Hotel like Columbus must have looked at Plymouth Rock when he landed there . `` I had an immediate notion that the thing for me to do was to go over to the hotel , an ' sit in the shade there , an ' study the inhabitants a while , an ' get the gauge of 'em , an ' learn their manners an ' customs , before harshly thrustin ' myself into their bosoms , so I went an ' did it ; but Sammy proceeded immediate to visit their homes with the ` Wage of Sin ' in one hand an ' the torch of culture in the other . `` The more I set under the board awning of that hotel the less I felt like goin ' for the to uplift the populace , so I went calmly an ' respectfully to sleep , like everybody else in sight , an ' the gentle hours sizzled past like rows of hot griddles . `` It was contiguous to five o'clock when I woke up , an ' I had put three hours of blissful ignorance into the past , an ' I seen it was too late to begin my labors of helpfulness that day . I crossed my legs the other way from what they had been crossed , an ' I was about to extend my ruminations to other thoughts , when I noticed a young female exit out of a grocery store across the road . She had a basket of et ceterys on her arm , an ' a face that was as beautiful as a ham sandwich looks to a man after a forty days ' fast . I recognized her right away as the prettiest girl of my life 's experience , an ' as she stepped out I slid out of my chair an ' made up my mind to make a disposal of one copy of that book as soon as she struck home .