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Judge Briscoe sht by

the veranda He and Willia down the elder-bushes,

and returning to the house, found Minnie alone on the porch "Safe?" he

said to his daughter, who turned an anxious face upon hiarden"

"Maybe I oughtn't to have let theht; that scalawag's half-way to Six-Cross-Roads by

this time, isn't he, William?"

"He tuck up the fence like a scared rabbit," Mr Todd responded, looking

into his hat to avoidthe eyes of the lady "I didn't have no call

to toller, and he knowed how to run, I reckon Tiain, he was near out o' sight, and we see hie-woods, near half-a-mile up Somebody else with him then

--looked like a kid Must 'a' cut acrost the field to join hih towards home by this"

"Did Miss Helen shake hands with you four or five ti

"No Why?"

"Because Harkless did My hand aches, and I guess William's does, too; he

nearly shook our arood I told hiht to hire so before breakfast--not that it's any joking htfully