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| | The Bo'sun's Button Box |
 | | He was wearing an old haversack and it contained sandwiches, swimming trunks and a towel, warm clothing, a softball, and the fungo bat. |
 | | He thought of squiggly spirit handwriting, the 911 on the backs of New York City police cars, and remarked that his state of mind was appropriate for someone approaching a haunted house, which he indeed was. |
 | | She opens the box and the man scrambles down holding a champagne glass: "Wheee!" he says, "You get meee!" And there was Eugene coming at her with the fungo bat. |
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