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"Stop a e Day," he replied; and then

half-a-dozen books at the end of a strap, and I sat at the ishing that I too could go to school and have a strap to put roundthe a the wall, and on looking more attentively I made out

that it was the top of Shock's straw head-piece with the lid gone, and

the hair sticking out in theto see another great clod of

earth co to throw back at hieranium in it, and the shells upon

the chimney-piece, and they were Mrs Beeton's, and I didn't like to

take theher till the whole of the straw bonnet croas visible, and I could justthat he

must have turned one of the trained plum-trees into a ladder, and

cli whether he had knocked off any

of the young fruit

Then, as he rean to wonder why

he should be so fond of taking every opportunity he could find to stare

at me; and then I wondered what old Brownsmith would say to hiht hi up his

beautifully trained trees