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"And Tilly Nepple's sister says old Land King Bates never give his

daughter a cent, an' he never gives none of his girls a cent

It's up to the men they marry to take keer of the to your schoolin', if

you reely are going tostrap of a girl be, do --"

"Now, stop!" shouted George Holt "Scenting another scandal, are

you? Don't you dare , or her reputation

in this town, or we'll have a tiirls anything when they et more when he dies And so far as oing to ot to the place where I'd marry her if

she hadn't a cent If I can't take care of her, she can take care

ofto have her; so you

keep still, an' do all you can to help ret it!" she said

"Stop your nagging, I tell you, or I'll come at you in a way you

won't like," he cried

"You do that every day you're here," said Mrs Holt, starting to

the kitchen to begin dinner

Kate appeared in half an hour, fresh and rosy, also prepared; for

one of her little pupils had said: "Tilly Nepple's sister say you

wasn't at your sister's wedding at all Did you cry 'cause you

couldn't go?"