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a visitor, and said that I should want

away

"What! for a holiday?" she said

"No; I'ether," I said

"I know'd it," she cried angrily; "I know'd it I always said it would

co yourself up with that bye A nasty dirty

hay-and-straw-sleeping young rascal, as is more like a monkey than a

bye And now you're to be sent away"

"Yes," I said gri at me for a minute, and then took off her dirty apron

and put on a clean one, with a good deal of angry snatching

"I shall just go and give Mr Brownsmith a bit of my mind," she said

"I won't have you sent away like that, and all on account of that bye"

"No, no," I said "I' aith Mr Brownsmith's brother, to

learn all about hothouses I suppose"

"Oh, my dear bye!" she exclai and poking all night long, and ketch your death o' cold, and

be laid up, and be ill-used, and be away froo"