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"Yes, I expect so; but there may be some chance of your cutting him out, if you try. The young lady seems to admire you." Philip smiled. "I am only a boy of sixteen," he said. "I am too young to think of such things. I won't interfere with Mr. Burbank." "Jedidiah's apt to be jealous," said Blake, "and Maria likes to torment him. However, she'll end by marrying him, I guess."
In those days we had to do many things ourselves, such as dip our candles, and I made my eyes weak mending Jedidiah's shoes in the evening, a candle near me, and the tall old family clock ticking in the corner." Miss Barry was charming in her antique dress, as every White Shield thought. It came down from her great-great-grandmother, Sally Tilton, who was a famous belle in her day.
What they did will be told in another chapter. That very afternoon there was a great rush to see Jedidiah's Noah's Ark, and there was immense enthusiasm about it. Some brave ones opened the roof and looked in upon the growling wild animals. The girls liked the lambs the best; the boys were delighted with the foxes that jumped on the edge of the boat that formed the ark.
She should be disturbed by them soon enough when they found out that there was not more than half a potato apiece, and like enough, not that. Pretty business of Mr. Dyer, to take to giving away, when he had not more than enough to put into his own mouth, to say nothing of Jedidiah's! So she went on darning and thinking.
They helped out some of the birds, white, with brown spots, geese, and ducks. It took the elephant and Noah and all his sons to get the horses out, plunging and curvetting as they were. Some sly foxes got out of themselves, leaping from the roof to the back of a kneeling camel. Jedidiah's eyes sparkled with joy. Mrs. Dyer sat with folded hands, and said, "Why, Mr. Dyer!" And Mr.
"I will, if I can get Jedidiah to bring me," answered Maria. "I guess there's no doubt about that," answered Andrew Blake, who knew very well Jedidiah's devotion to the young lady. "Oh, I don't know!" answered Maria coquettishly. "Perhaps he won't care for my company." "If he doesn't, you won't have any trouble in finding another beau."
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