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I always felt as if I should like to punch that boy's head, and then

directly after I used to feel as if I shouldn't care to touch hied

It was not dirty dirt, if you knohat I athered up in his work--bits of hay and straw, and dust off a shed

floor; mud over his boots and on his toes, for you could see that the

big boots he wore seereat open mouth in front, and his toes used to seem as if they lived in

there as hermit-crabs do in whelk shells They used to play about in

there and waggle this side and that side when he was standing still

looking at you; and I used to think that some day they would come a

little way out and wait for prey like the different molluscs I had read

about in my books

But you should have seen his hands! I've seen the on them in knobs, and at such tiers spread out wide, and then down he

would go again and continue his work, which, when he was in this state,

would be pulling up the weeds fro beds