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Kate stepped in and began to right things with practised hand

Disaster came when she saw Polly, at the well, take an instant

fro in the water, to wave in the direction of the Peters

farlance

"Have to upset the bowl, as usual?" she said, scathingly "Just

as I think you're going to in

Hank Peters Don't you ever let ain You are

too young to start that kind of foolishness I bet a coas

hanging around here, and made you late with dinner"

"He was not! He didn't either!" cried Polly, then stopped in

disulped and went on bravely:

"That is, he wasn't here, and he didn't make ME late, any more

than I kept HIM from his work He alatches when there are

tramps and peddlers on the road, because he knows I' two men who stopped to see you, so I

just went as far as the haw tree to tell hi --"

If only Kate had been looking at Polly then! But she was putting

the apple butter and creaht possibly it was a good idea to have Henry Peters seeing

that trahten Polly, so she missed dawn on the face

of her child, and instead of what hbourly of hiet any foolish notions in his head I think Aunt Nancy

Ellen will let you stay at her house after this, and go to the

Hartley High School in winter, so you can come out of that much