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`` No , the vice-president . '' There was a wide distinction between the two offices . `` Besides '' -- this was a wider distinction -- `` Murph lives at the Falls . '' Living at the Falls , the little settlement at the head of the river , and lunching at noon , in the empty schoolhouse , out of tin boxes , with a forlorn assembly of half a dozen or so , was a handicap that few could live down . `` Murph ? '' `` The team calls him Murphy . I do n't know why .