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It's goin' in and out of the cold and the heat and the damp that's so tryin'. He's been holdin' on as long as he could, but now he's ready enough to part with 'em, and if only he could get a good price it'd maybe take 'im to the hopen-air, and help to keep the 'ome together till he's well." "That sounds the wisest plan," observed Jack thoughtfully. "Yes, sir, but the point is the sellin' of 'em.
"Surely the very thing!" said Jack. "It seems so, doesn't it, sir? Father he sent round at once to make arrangements. But what do you think? he can't get the carting of 'em done under three-and-six a load; and, as he says, he hasn't got half a guinea to lay out that way. Why, it'd pay his train to the hopen-air! So 'e'll have to let it slide, and not get such a chance again in a hurry."
"But, Hannah, you haven't given me a chance yet. Plants?" said Jack. "Yes, sir; I'll tell you all about it if I may. You see, my 'ome's at Brickland that's a matter of four miles from Elmridge, and my father, he's steadily wastin', and doctor says there's no chance for him, not unless he gets to one of the hopen-air 'ospitals, and he's not to doddle about the green-'ouse any more."
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