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"Which, sir, I will, though Mr Bi ht--it's 'ih doleful, Mr Bi so with a broke leg--ah, I've knowed 'i 'ome

stray cats afore now, many's the time, and once a sparrer But I'll

tell 'im, sir, and thank you kindly"

And in a while, when Mrs Snummitt had duly curtsied herself out of

sight, Barnabas sighed, and turned oncechilory of the sunset

But now, because he remembered poor little Miss Pell who had died

because she was so friendless and hungry, and Mr Biry" and played the flute, he stifled his fierce yearning

for deood and copse and the sweet, pure breath of the country,

and thought no more of his father's inn that was so very far fro of Giles's Rents, down by the River;

and setting the kettle on the fire he sank into a chair and

stretching out his long legs, fell into a profoundof the door, and, glancing up,

beheld John Peterby A very different person he looked froo, ith the rough, ill-fitting

clothes he wore and the fur cap pulled low over his brows; the

gentleentleman had vanished quite, and in his stead was a

nondescript character such as ing in shadowy corners He carried a bundle