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David was quite a personage in Old Chester for a few days Mrs

Richie was his slave, and hardly left hi came

to see him five times in one week; Mrs Barkley sent him some wine

jelly in a sheaf-of-wheat mould; Dr Lavendar climbed the hill on two

afternoons, to play doh, as it happened, Mrs

Richie was not present either day to watch the gaone to lie down, Sarah said; the second tioodness!" said Sarah, "she

o I should 'a'

thought she'd 'a' seen you tyin' up at the gate?"

"Well, evidently she didn't," Dr Lavendar said, "or she would have

waited Tell her I'erly, he went

on up-stairs to David

Willia, too, was scarcely more fortunate; he only found her at

home once, so at the end of the week he was unable to tell her that

David was i It was, of course, necessary that she should be

told this; so that hy he and Jinny continued to come up the hill

for another week At any rate that was the explanation he gave his

Martha "I o back to school,"