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She's goin' to begin school, soon's town meetin's over an' Moses'll have time to drive her there. Oh, I forget he's broke. Well, she'll go sometime, if the proper clothes come an' things turn out accordin'. But come she must now, an' to oncet, if she's anywhere's hereabout, 'cause I dassent stay a minute more.
"There, deary, that is a lunch to eat whilst you're in the woods; crisp air makes a body hungry. Moses'll show you where the spring is, and there's a gourd dipper hangs by it to drink out of. But take dreadful care the basket. It was your own pa's meetin' one." "My father's 'meeting one. What was that? and how fearfully old it must be.
But thaa cornd mend it wi' swearin' thaa nobbud makes bad worse by adding thy oaths to his roguery. 'Oaths, mother! Oaths didsto say? I can tell thee th' Almighty sometimes thinks more o' oaths than prayers. Owd Moses'll say his to-neet but my oaths'll get to heaven faster. 'Hooisht, Jim! hooisht! ne'er mind Moses and his prayers. What did he say about th' mortgage?
"Well, Master Moses'll jest have to give up his particular notions," said Miss Roxy, "and come down in the dust, like all the rest on us, when the Lord sends an east wind and withers our gourds. Moses Pennel's one of the sort that expects to drive all before him with the strong arm, and sech has to learn that things ain't to go as they please in the Lord's world.
Well he and they knew that the shortest road to the hired man's heart was by the suggestion of hunger; and the surest way to secure parents' consent was the announcement: "Uncle Moses'll take us fishin', if you'll let us go."
'Say! why he said he'd oather hev his brass at ten o'clock to-morn, or skift us wi' law. And he'll do it that he will. 'A, lad thaa says truth. Owd Moses'll keep his word; he never lies when he threatens poor fo'k like us. But I never thought it ud come to this.
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