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"Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Ada command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place

But no sooner had he licked up his supper than he went back to hisWomen who are never bitter and resentful are often the most querulous; and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he co on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye--a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish Depend upon it, he ood creature, who had no joy but in the happiness of the loved ones who by all the tid-bits for the on herself Such a wo, self-renouncing and exacting, brooding the livelong day over what happened yesterday and what is likely to happen to-ood and the evil But a certain awe led itself with her idolatrous love of Adam, and when he said, "Leave me alone," she was always silenced

So the hours passed, to the loud ticking of the old day-clock and the sound of Adaht of water (beer was a thing only to be drunk on holidays), and Lisbeth ventured to say as she took it in, "Thy supper stan's ready for thee, when thee lik'st"

"Donna thee sit up, entle tone He had worked off his anger now, and whenever he wished to be especially kind to his est native accent and dialect, hich at other tied "I'll see to Father when he coht I shall be easier if thee't i' bed"

"Nay, I'll bide till Seth co now, I reckon"

It was then past nine by the clock, which was always in advance of the days, and before it had struck ten the latch was lifted and Seth entered He had heard the sound of the tools as he was approaching

"Why, Mother," he said, "how is it as Father's working so late?"

"It's none o' thy feyther as is a-workin'--thee ht know that well anoof if thy head warna full o' chapellin'--it's thy brother as does iverything, for there's niver nobody else i' th' way to do nothin'"