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"I couldn't help it," I cried piteously; "the top was so heavy, it

seemed to pull it over when I tried to move it Please how ri with one eye at the ladder,

with the other at me--"hundred--hundred and twenty--say a hundred pound

at the very outside"

"A hundred pounds!" I cried aghast

"Well, notto move it, was you? and--

why, you've smashed that branch off the pear-tree I say, hadn't you

better cut and run?"

"I don't know, Ike," I said hopelessly; "had I?"

"Well, I don't think I would this tier perhaps'll let you

off if you pay for it out of your wage"

"But I don't have any wages," I said in despair

"You don't!" he cried "Well, then, you're in for it My word, I

wouldn't be you for a crown"

I stood gazing helplessly fro

that he was i upon me, but in too much trouble to resent it, and

as I stared about a robin came and sat upon the broken branch, and

seee I had done

"Well, what shall we do, young 'un?" said Ike

"I suppose I loo to cut then?"

"No," I said firmly