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'I hope you have a real monster inside you,' Melony told her friend. 'Well, you can be havin' your period, or somethin', and still say good mornin',' said Big Dot Taft after a while. Something was born with. 'How he's getting along with the girl is his own business,' Wally said.

' 'Come on,' Wally was saying. But the _girls_ are another matter,' he concluded weakly. 'Real fast, real easy—just the end. Larch found them.