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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I didn't seem to have been asleep above ten minutes, but it was eight o'clock when Old Brownsmith's brother stirs me up with his foot, and I sat up and stared at him. "`Where's young Grant and the boy? he says. "`What! ain't they come? I says, and I told him. "`And you've left the dog behind too, he says, quite waxy with me. "`No, I says; `she come home along o' me and went into her kennel.
"I looked, at Old Brownsmith's brother, and he looked at me, and we jumped out, slipped off our coats and weskits, took a shovel apiece, and began to throw the sand away. "My head was all of a buzz, for every shovelful I threw out I seemed to see your white gal's face staring at me and asking of me to work harder, and I did work like a steam-engyne.
"I'm going to leave here," I said. "Get out, you discontented warmint!" he cried savagely, "you don't know when you're well off." "Yes, I do," I said; "but Mr Brownsmith's going to send me away." "What!" he roared, driving in his spade, and beginning to dig with all his might. "Mr Brownsmith's going to send me away." "Old Brownsmith's going to send you away?" "Yes."
At any other time it would have been a pleasant evening drive, but certainly one wanted a different driver, for whether it was our crops at Old Brownsmith's, or the idea that he had undertaken a great responsibility in taking charge of me, or whether at any moment he anticipated meeting with an accident, I don't know.
Lots o' things I fun' in the fields. Rabbud." "Who's that boy?" said a sharp voice that well knew; and Shock's head disappeared. "Mr Ezra Brownsmith's boy, Sir Francis," I said. "He used to work with me." "Was he from the workhouse?" "Yes, Sir Francis." "Tell him not to do that again, and don't you encourage him. I don't approve of it. Go on with your work."
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