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spar-house, when his footsteps were heard by theas he entered "A rietically; for, not having as yet been

able to suin work, he felt the

necessity of throwing some into his speech "I don't care who thewe've had this fall"

"I heard you wondering why I've kept -school," resu up fro anew by the fire, and turning to them with the

suddenness that was a trait in him "Hey?" he asked, with affected

shrewdness "But you did, you know Well, now, though it is my own

business more than anybody else's, I'll tell ye When I was a boy,

another boy--the pa'son's son--along with a lot of others, asked ed Whom round the walls of What?' and I said, 'Saed his wife in a chair round the tower corner when she went to

be churched' They laughed at me with such torrents of scorn that I

went hoht

till ht to norance, but that was father's

fault, and none o' h at my children, if I have any: I'll starve first!' Thank God,

I've been able to keep her at school without sacrifice; and her

scholarship is such that she stayed on as governess for a tih now if they can: Mrs Charirl Grace"