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Pat will be givin' Moike the Gineral's receipt, and the b'y that steps into Moike's place and that'll be Andy, I'm thinkin' he'll larn it of Moike, and so on, do you see?" "And I was just thinkin'," put in Pat, with an encouraging glance at Mike, "that Jim Barrows's cookin' was like to be poor eatin'." "True for you, my b'y!" exclaimed the widow.
The cause of this was a little girl, a year younger than Charlotte, who with her father and mother had recently come to board at the Leighs'. The Reeds were strangers in the city, and Miss Sarah had asked Charlotte to do what she could to make Helen feel at home. They had taken a fancy to each other, and Charlotte enjoyed playing chaperon to Helen when she was entered at Miss Barrows's school.
It was a beautiful morning; and by nine o'clock, when Tom and Jimmy Barrows arrived, the lawn and sloping knoll at the east of it were bright and dry with sunshine. On the piazza the various baskets of eggs were standing; only "Jimmy Barrows's gift" had been set aside as "too good to use." "My! haven't you got a lot, though?" cried Tom, as he surveyed them. "But what are these in the box here?"
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