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"See here!" he said roughly "I knorong about the

sluice-gate I was a fool to shut it with the water that high,

but I've learnedfor weeks to pay for it; nohere do I come in?

What's et it?"

"The trouble with you, George, is that you have to learn a new

lesson about every thing you atte in yourthat

comes up I know you have worked, and I knohy It is fair

that you should have so to rebuild the dam, and with a number of incidentals that

have co I could do, I have

been forced to usethe house; and

even with that, I a out a hundred or two short I'ins to co the es, the next for

tio to work at the

et started I'll pay you what is fair and just,

you may depend on that If he hasn't work for you, you'll have to