three
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`` Has paw turned up ? '' asked Joe . `` Yes , '' answered Mrs. Ridder indifferently . `` He looked in ` bout three o'clock . He was tolerable full then , and I ` spec he 's been took up by now . He said he was goin ' to buy me a bird-cage with a bird in it , but I surely hope he wo n't . Them white mice he brought me on his last spree chewed a hole in Berney 's stocking ; besides , I never did care much for birds .