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The scent was delicious; and as ent past the woers were all hard at work, Old Browns up so

his head and shoulders into a great oblong basket, leaving the roses at

the bottom as he came out, and seized a piece of chalk and made a mark

upon a slate

"Give him the slate, Ike," said Old Brownsmith "He'll tally 'em off

for you now Look here, Grant, you keep account on the slate how es are filled"

"Yes, sir," I said, taking the slate and chalk with treers,

for I felt flushed and excited

"This is the way--you put down a stroke like that for every dozen, and

one like that for a barge Do you see?"

"Yes, sir," I said, "I can do that; but when ae?"

"When it's full, of course, and covered in--lidded up"

"But shall we fill a barge to-night, sir?"

"Well, I hope so--a good o down

to the river with me to shohere, sir?"

"River!--show you what, es we are to fill, sir"

"Whoo-oop!"