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Cai commanded, forgetting that the man was deaf. "If your mistress'll stand back in the path a bit, I'll pick out the shoots one by one and hold 'em up for her to see, so's she can tell me which to cut away." "You'll scratch your hands to ribbons," Mrs Bosenna warned him. "'Tisn't worth while comin' down for a pair of hedgin' gloves. . . . I say, though I've a better notion!
Really! I should like to see it. A few radishes and spindly lettuce, I suppose?" "Say, come have a look!" says I. And when I'd pointed out the half acre of potatoes, and the long rows of corn and string beans and peas and I hope I called 'em all by their right names I sure had the old girl hedgin' some. But trust her!
"Do you know," he breaks in, "I believe I should like it. If you think she's good looking now, young man, you should have seen her at 19, at 22, or at 25. What an ass I was! And now I suppose she's like a full blown rose, perfect, exquisite?" "Oh, I don't mean she's any ravin' beauty," says I, hedgin'. "You don't, eh?" says he. "Well, I'd just like to see.
Why, my Jock would throttle him wi' one bond lashed behind him." "Happen he may happen not," said Barton. "I have but twa pund in the world, but it's on him, every penny, and no hedgin'. But here's t' Maister, and rarely fine he do look." The prize-fighter had come out from his curtain, a squat, formidable figure, monstrous in chest and arms, limping slightly on his distorted leg.
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