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Buck desires to get away often to the city and have his "fling" with boon companions but fears the gossip of the rural community in which he lives * Buck, wishing to carry out an enterprise that would cause gossip,

puts gossip to sleep by inventing a fictitious relative, AX, who is always in trouble and always calling on Buck to help him out **

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