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"Munny, my iron's twite told; pease put it down to war voice that uttered this request cairl between three and four, who, seated on a high chair at the end of the ironing table, was arduously clutching the handle of a s with an assiduity that required her to put her little red tongue out as far as anato? Bless your sweet face!" said Mrs Poyser, as remarkable for the facility hich she could relapse froatory to one of fondness or of friendly converse "Neverto put the ironing things away"

"Munny, I tould 'ike to do into de barn to Toet her feet wet," said Mrs Poyser, carrying away her iron "Run into the dairy and see cousin Hetty make the butter"

"I tould 'ike a bit o' pum-take," rejoined Totty, who seemed to be provided with several relays of requests; at the sa the opportunity of her ers into a bowl of starch, and drag it down so as to empty the contents with tolerable co sheet

"Did ever anybody see the like?" screa towards the table when her eye had fallen on the blue stream "The child's allays i' mischief if your back's turned a ell?"

Totty, however, had descended froreat swiftness, and was already in retreat towards the dairy with a sort of waddling run, and an amount of fat on the nape of her neck which

The starch having been wiped up by Molly's help, and the ironing apparatus put by, Mrs Poyser took up her knitting which always lay ready at hand, and was the work she liked best, because she could carry it on automatically as she walked to and fro But now she came and sat down opposite Dinah, whorey worsted stocking

"You look th' i I could alell at ho at Judith as she sat at her work, after she'd done the house up; only it was a little cottage, Father's was, and not a big raets dirty i' one corner as fast as you clean it in another--but for all that, I could fancy you was your Aunt Judith, only her hair was a deal darker than yours, and she was stouter and broader i' the shoulders Judith and h she had such queer ways, but your ht as she'd have a daughter just cut out after the very pattern o' Judith, and leave her an orphan, too, for Judith to take care on, and bring up with a spoon when SHE was in the graveyard at Stoniton I allays said that o' Judith, as she'd bear a pound weight any day to save anybody else carrying a ounce And she was just the sa her; it made no difference in her, as I could see, when she took to the Methodists, only she talked a bit different and wore a different sort o' cap; but she'd never in her life spent a penny on herselfherself decent"