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The opera-glass was very useful to me, especially as the boy fascinated

me so, for I used to watch him with it till I knew that he had two brass

shank-buttons and three four-holes of bone on his jacket, that there

were no buttons at all on his shirt, and that he had blue eyes, a

snub-nose, and had lost one of his top front teeth

I reat an attraction to him as he was to me,

but he showed it in a very different way There would be threatening

movements ,

without paying the slightest heed to, catch up the basket, and reat clod and pretend to

throw that, but let it fall beside him; while one day, when I went to

theand looked out, I found hi shoot of a pear tree, and a lu of a

yellowish brown tucked in the fork of a tree close by where he worked

He had a basket by his side and was busily engaged as usual weeding, for

there was a great battle for ever going on in that garden, where the

weeds were always trying to etables, and that