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"A young fellow needn't be a B A to do this sort of work, eh, Fred?"

"I wish I had taken to it before I had thought of being a B A," said

Fred He paused a ly, "Do you

think I am too old to learn your business, Mr Garth?"

"My business is of ood deal of what I know can only come fros out of a book But you are young enough to

lay a foundation yet" Caleb pronounced the last sentence

emphatically, but paused in some uncertainty He had been under the

impression lately that Fred had made up his ood at it, if I were to try?" said Fred,

his head on one side and lowering

his voice, with the air of a ious "You s: you e of it, wanting

your play to begin And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your

work, and think it would be

else Youto do it

well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had

this or that to do, Iof it No ive twopence for him"--here Caleb's ers--"whether he was the prime minister

or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do hat he undertook to do"