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He stopped his horse, raised the trap and dropped his phonographic voice, like a lead plummet, through the aperture: "I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?" "Four dollars!" laughed the fare, softly, "dear me, no. I've only got a few pennies and a dime or two." Jerry shut down the trap and slashed his oat-fed horse.
Katy's room was to be arranged, Katy's "box bed," as Aunt Betsy called it, to be fixed, flowers to be gathered for the parlor and vegetables for the dinner, so that her hands were full, up to the moment when Uncle Ephraim drove away from the door, setting old Whitey into a canter, which, by the time the "race" was reached, had become a rapid trot, the old man holding up his reins and looking proudly at the oat-fed animal, speeding along so fast.
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