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  • He had crashed his fist into the face of a shrimp-seine hauler once, and the fellow's neck had shifted on his spine -- and once he had maced a woman up-river in a shantyboat drinking bout -- Tedge had got away both times.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

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