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"She'll be fittin' an' good by mornin'." The old man did not reply he only sang a low melody and smoothed her forehead. It was ten o'clock, and now she lay on the old man's lap asleep from exhaustion. A cricket began chirping in the fireplace, under a hearth-brick. "What's that, Pap?" asked Shiloh half asleep. "That's a cricket, Pet," smiled the old man.
A new gown apiece, and black silk kerchiefs to tie over their heads instead of red cotton, and the little cabin new red-washed, and soup in the pot, and a garlic sausage, and a bottle of good, costly liniment for Anne Marie's legs; and still a pile of gold to go under the hearth-brick a pile of gold that would have made the eyes of the defunct husband glisten.
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