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"I alad you feel like that," I said

"Why?" he cried sharply

"Because it makes me feel that I was not such a terrible coward after

all"

"But you were," he said, givinga coward as ever I see"

I did not understand why I was so very great a coward, but he did not

explain, and I trudged on by him

"I say, ould you have done if I hadn't come?"

"I don't know," I said "I suppose they would have let ot all my money"

"They did?"

"Yes," I said dolefully; "and then there's the rope What will Mr

Brownsmith say?"

"Nothin' at all," said Ike

"But he will," I cried again

"No he won't, because we'll buy a new one 'fore we goes back"

"I thought of that," I said, "but I've no ht! I have," he said "We may think ourselves well out of

a bad o to the police,

but we haven't no time for that There'll be another load o' strawb'ys

ready by the tiht Strawb'ys sold well to-day No: we've no time for the

police"