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"I stepped down pretty nigh to the brim o' the mud an' tossed 'em out to him. Three fell short in my hurry, but the rest he got hold of somehow. "'That's right, he calls, hoarse and low, 'they'll think egg-stealin' nateral to a low family like our'n. Now back to your room undress an' cry out, sayin', there's a man shoutin' for help down 'pon the mud; and, dear, be quick!
Egg-stealin' was just the little hole-an'-corner wickedness that 'd come nateral to 'em." "I rec'lect now," said Job Lear very slowly, "that the wain-rope was wet i' my hands when I unhitched 'en that night from the hook, an' I wondered, it bein' the end of a week's dryth. But in the dark an' the confusion o' savin' the wastrel's life it slipped my thoughts, else "
Like the woman of spirit she was, she jumped out of bed, crept downstairs to the kitchen, picked up the broom, and listened, with her hand on the latch of the back-door. She heard the scrape of a toe-plate on the wall outside. This was too much. "You mean, sneakin', snivellin', pilferin', egg-stealin' highwayman!" cries she, and lets fly.
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