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"Well, I wouldn't meddle with 'em myself," said Solomon "But son is, as it's being

overrun with these fellows tra to cut

it up into railways; and all for the big traffic to s up the

little, so as there shan't be a team left on the land, nor a whip to

crack"

"I'll crack _ it to that,

though," said Hira his bridle,The ruin of this countryside by

railroads was discussed, not only at the "Weights and Scales," but in

the hay-field, where the ave opportunities for

talk such as were rarely had through the rural year

Oneafter that intervieeen Mr Farebrother and

Mary Garth, in which she confessed to hi for Fred Vincy,

it happened that her father had some business which took him to

Yoddrell's farm in the direction of Frick: it was toto Lowick Manor, which Caleb

expected to dispose of advantageously for Dorothea (itthe best possible ter at Yoddrell's, and in

walking with his assistant and -chain to the scene of his

work, he encountered the party of the co their spirit-level After a little chat he left theain where he was going

to ht rains, which

become delicious about twelve o'clock, when the clouds part a little,

and the scent of the earth is sweet along the lanes and by the

hedgerows

The scent would have been sweeter to Fred Vincy, as co

the lanes on horseback, if his ine what he was to do, with his father on

one side expecting hihtway to enter the Church, with Mary on

the other threatening to forsake hi no eager need whatever of a young gentleenerally unskilled It was the harder to Fred's