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``` Then these poor people are alarmed -- No ? '' said Rene . ``` They 've had it in at me for some time back because o ' my tryin ' your trumpets on their sick ; and I reckon by the talk at the alehouse they wo n't stand much more . Tom Dunch an ' some of his kidney was drinkin ' themselves riot-ripe when I passed along after noon . Charms an ' mutterin 's an ' bits o ' red wool an ' black hens is in the way o ' nature to these fools , Mosheur ; but anything likely to do ` em real service is devil 's work by their estimation . If I was you , I 'd go home before they come . '' Jerry spoke quite quietly , and Rene shrugged his shoulders .