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'I'hts,' he continued, taking up a lever for propelling the screw, and beckoning to the men to come forward 'The truth is, my son Edward had promised to come to-day, and I made preparations; but instead of hihteenth, Dear Father," says he, and went on to tell me he couldn't It threw ot a place 'a b'lieve?' said the clerk, drawing near

'No, poor mortal fellow, no He tried for this one here, you know, but couldn't hts o' the matter, but willy-nilly they wouldn't have hirove, the clerk, the grinders, and Gad, all ranged themselves behind the lever of the screw, and walked round like soldiers wheeling

'The et upon your tongue to gainsay, by the look o' en,' rejoined Clerk Crickett

'One o' theht no worse o' for stealen a horse than another rinder

'Well, he's all there as steward, and is quite the gentleman--no doubt about that' 'So would my Ted ha' been, for the matter o' that,' the farive Ted a good education if it do cost me my eyes, and I would have done it' 'Ay, that you would so,' said the chorus of assistants sole naturally, and cost very little; and as a wind-up the womenfolk hatched up a match between hirove?' 'Uncertain--but soon, I suppose Edward, you see, can do anything pretty nearly, and yet can't get a straightforward living I wish soo But he was such a one for the pencil' He dropped the lever in the hedge, and turned to his visitor

'Now then, missie, if you'll come indoors, please' Gad Weedy looked with a placid criticism at Cytherea as she withdreith the farue o' her that she didn't take her degrees in our county,' he said in an undertone

'The railways have left you lonely here,' she observed, when they were indoors

Save the withered old flies, which were quite ta was in the house Nobody seeer had been called out to e-coach that had run by