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Larger context for HE OFTEN in Corpus brown_strip.txt
DBL-CLICK WDS FOR DEF
 

One month ago, on the 20th of October, was the opening of the gunning season in Massachusetts. Not much to shoot, but there are a few pheasant. Rabbits, too, if you care for them, which most of the folk around here haven't the sense to appreciate. Any more than they have the sense to eat mussels. That was the day Red was said to have gone away. Oh yes, he'd talked about doing so.   In fact, HE OFTEN disappeared, from time to time,- off to paint the sea, aboard a dragger out from Gloucester.   Anta, his wife, never seemed to mind. I suppose these absences gave her more clearance for her embraces with Cousin Handley. Anyhow, I wasn't surprised, early that morning, to see Handley himself crossing from Dogtown Common Road to the Back Road. No, he didn't have his gun, which he should have. It would have been a good excuse for his being there at all.