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You jest want to say I'm not to git around doing the chores here for the reason you can't accept favors, an' you don't guess it would be right to offer me pay, same as a 'hired' man." He hayed Bob's manger, and then loosened both horses' collar chains. "If you'll sit on the oat-box I'll turn 'em round an' take 'em to water at the trough. That's it."
It was good to feel that he was near at hand. But her woman's mind sought to restrain him. "Please please don't talk like that," she said, in a tone that carried no real conviction. "No, Beasley would not dare insult me for himself." The girl drew back to the oat-box, and seated herself. Buck's moment of passion had brought a deep flush to his cheeks, and his dark eyes moved restlessly.
Then he bolted for the stables, thinking it came from there. It took him some time to corner me up on my stack-top. Then I slid down into his arms. And I believe he loves that mouth-organ music. After supper he made me go out and sit on the oat-box and play my repertory. He says it's wonderful, from a distance. But that mouth-organ's rather brassy, and it makes my lips sore.
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