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"Be it?" he said dubiously: "Well, I have punished it pretty well

Ground's very foul and full o' bear-bine"

"Put down your spade and co to the well"

"All right, I'll coht work or day work, it's all the saru like this"

"Grulad I

come?"

"Why, of course I am, Ike"

"So a o' you; but I

miss my hoss a deal I say, Old Brownsmith didn't like it a bit; but

here I a Shock?"

"No: what about hiht hiive him a decent suit of clothes, so stiff

he can't hardly move in 'em, and he's took on"

"Shock is?"

"To be sure he is; and if he behaves decent his fortun's made"

"Oh, look here, my man," said Mr Solomon as we came up, "you had better

stop here and help Lower down that ladder"

Ike took hold of the ladder as if it were an eneave me a nod, and I

went and stood at the foot, so as to hold it dohile Ike raised it