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I did not knohat to say, so I said nothing

We did not sit very long over our tea, for there was the cart to load up

with flowers for theIke

carefully packing in the great baskets along the bottoht over the shafts upon the broad projecting ladder, and also

upon that which was fitted in at the back

"You keep account, Grant," said Old Brownsmith to me, and I entered the

nuentleman

going away and leaving me to transact this part of the business ive me confidence, for he carefully counted all

the baskets and checked them off when he came back

Ike squinted at me fiercely several times as he helped to hoist in

several baskets, and for some time he did not speak, but at last he

stopped, took off his hat, drew a piece of cabbage leaf from the crown,

and carefully wiped his bald head with it, looking coruffly, as he replaced the leaf "Nature's own