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...town bank. I own five houses and a church too." He is and he does, in this well-barbered hamlet of Hillsboro Center, N.H., a glossy enclave of green lawns and ancient white clapboards, with never a rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where every third cowshed sells antiques. But now, on the auction...
...snow. Bootprints squished into the sideyard mud on a warm day two weeks ago are still there, fossilized, sandy brown, ugly to look at and awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods...
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