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Alfaretta had enumerated the various disasters which had befallen Montgomery upon finger after finger, and with such perfect gravity that the anxious grandmother was amused, in spite of her fear, and felt herself greatly cheered. With a kindly smile, she answered: "Yes, Alfy, please do bring it; and, of course, you need not close the door.
Here the pampered fowl slept luxuriously, and for a time had been the delight of its owner's eyes. "Let's sit down on the grass and watch it awhile. We can eat our crackers here, first rate, 'cause if we get thirsty we can drink out of the spigot o' running water that cooky has fixed for the hen," suggested Alfy.
We've got quite a lot of 'em and, girls, if you'd like, I'll bring a couple for you, too." "You dear, thoughtful little caretaker! I'll be ever so obliged for the loan till I can make one for myself," answered Helena gratefully, giving her mate a smile that made Alfy happy.
They had almost eaten the very heart out of him!" "His substance I know they have," I said; "but not his good warm heart." "You would say so if you saw the poor wretches on his property," said Harold. "The hovels in the Alfy Valley were palaces compared with the cabins. Such misery I never saw. They say it is better since the famine. What must it have been then?
"What on earth does it mean?" demanded Mattie, scarcely believing her own eyes. It didn't take Alfy long to explain, and she added the warning: "You keep it up! Don't you let on to Mrs. Ford that there's the least misdoubt in your mind but what them searchers will be back, right to once, same's I'm pretending! Oh! I hope they do! I hope they do!
'Oh! he told him he heard he was a stranger here, like himself, and asked how long he'd been here, and where he came from. 'And what did he say? 'He said he was from Upperscote Union come out because he was big enough to keep himself, and come to look for work, said Harold. 'He's a right good chap, I'll tell you, and I'll bring him up to see Alfy one of these days! 'Bring up that dirty boy!
"Who is 'Barnaby, Alfy?" asked Leslie, going round to her side and critically inspecting her treasure. "Oh he Why, he's a mule!" A shout of laughter greeted this announcement and Lemuel moved away. He was disappointed that the beautiful Blanca had not fallen to Dorothy's share, for he believed the white filly to be the best as well as the handsomest creature in the corral.
Ford grew frightened and implored them to stop. They did so, all but Alfaretta and Molly, who had both been fascinated by the sport and felt sure that they could hit the bull's-eye which nobody else had done. "Come on, Alfy! Let's get down on our tummy, same's all marksmen do, let's!"
For a time the anxious girl's fate hung in the balance. It did not strike Madam as just the correct thing to take a servant Alfy was really that, of course to a Maitland party. Yet the child had just as good blood in her veins as many others who would attend, even if her lot in life were less fortunate. Besides, was it right to disturb her quiet habits by such frivolity?
A shout of derision came from both Alfy and Leslie, at this remark, and they pointed in high glee at a basketful of things Dorothy was vainly trying to make look a tidy bundle. She had to join in the laughter against herself and Mr. Ford came forward to lend a hand or offer advice, as need be. "So you're up against a tough proposition, are you, youngsters?
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