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"No, but the rest Come, I'm as hard at work as any of you to-day, and

I can't spare much time Say you'll be quiet without the constable"

"Aooant meddle--they may do as they loike for oos"--were the

fores; and then he hastened back to

Fred, who had followed hiateway

They went to work, and Fred helped vigorously His spirits had risen,

and he heartily enjoyed a good slip in the erohich soiled his perfect summer trousers Was it his

successful onset which had elated hihad

helped his frustrated iination to shape an employment for himself

which had several attractions I am not sure that certain fibres in

Mr Garth's mind had not resumed their old vibration towards the very

end which now revealed itself to Fred For the effective accident is

but the touch of fire where there is oil and tow; and it always

appeared to Fred that the railway brought the needed touch But they

went on in silence except when their business demanded speech At

last, when they had finished and alking away, Mr Garth said--