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she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of

lead. Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I

contrived the other things just to make certain. Now trot along to your uncle,

Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you get into trouble you

send word to Mrs. Judith Loftus, which is me, and I'll do what I can to get you

out of it. Keep the river road, all the way, and next time you tramp, take shoes

and socks with you. The river road's a rocky one, and your feet 'll be in a

condition when you get to Goshen, I reckon."

I went up the bank about fifty yards, and then I doubled on my tracks and

slipped back to where my canoe was, a good piece below the house. I jumped in

and was off in a hurry. I went up stream far enough to make the head of the

island, and then started across. I took off the sun-bonnet, for I didn't want no

blinders on, then. When I was about the middle, I hear the clock begin to

strike; so I stops and listens; the sound come faint over the water, but clear --

eleven. When I struck the head of the island I never waited to blow, though I

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