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"Ah, yes," he said, as he drove in his spade "You're a gent, you see,

and I' to be a worker like rapes, and mind chyce flowers I'm not like you"

"It does not ht to turn

over a new leaf and keep away fro a clod; "and I do turn over a noo leaf, but it

will turn itself back"

"Nonsense!" I said "You are sharp enough on Shock's failings, and you

tell me of ent," he cried sharply, "do you want to quarrel just

because I like a drop now and then?"

"Quarrel! No, Ike I tell you because I don't want to see you

discharged"

"Think they would start me if they knowed, lad?"

"I'm sure of it," I said earnestly "Sir Francis is so particular"

"Then," he said, scraping his spade fiercely, "it won't do I want to

stop here I'll turn over a noo leaf"

One day in the next autu in a pill-box a

at the house caught