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"Oh, they's enough here, and willing enough," said Mrs Bates

"Slipped off to get away from them It was the quietest and the

peacefullest out there, Kate I'don to dinner time, and I'm short of potatoes"

"Never mind the potatoes," said Kate "Let the folks serve

thery"

She went to the side of the s it to the shady side of a widely spreading

privet bush, she placed it where it would be best screened fro the potatoes in the shade, she

went to her mother, put her arm around her, and drew her to the

seat She took her handkerchief and wiped her face, s out a pin, fastened the coil

better

"Now rest a bit," she said, "and then tell lad to

see me, and exactly what you'd like me to do here Mind, I've

been away seven years, and Adaone"

"Huain," coone to fill you up, and get you on his side"

"Mother, what is the trouble?" asked Kate "Take your time and

tell me what has happened, and what YOU want, not what Adaripped her hands

tightly together in her lap

"Well, it was quick work," she said "It all ca Pa hadn't failed a

particle that any one could see Ate a big dinner of has, an' him an' Hiram was in the west field It was

scorchin' hot an' first Hiraet him in, an' took our horse an' ran for

Robert He was in the country but Saht another doctor real

quick, an' he seeht he'd be all right, h the doctor