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I presume you could look afta them, come to give youa mind to it; but I don't want to have you tied up to a lot of clothes; and I presume we should find her a comfo't in moa ways than one, both of us. I don't know what we shall want her to do, exactly; but I guess she will, if she undastands her business, and I want you should go in with me, to-morror, and find one.
I'll bunk here on the sofy, an' to-morror we'll see what's to be done." Another pause. "Oh, you won't run off 'ith anythin'? I s'pose not. But duty is duty, as I said afore, and I must mind orders. 'Stick by till you git a receipter, sez he. 'I will, sez I, an' I must. Never mind about bedclose. I c'n sleep jest ez I be. You jest go up-stairs. I'll make myself 't home."
Dad's no grit. He gits drunk whenever he has a chance. Marm's a good, hard-workin' woman. She'd git along well enough ef she was alone." "At any rate, she can't afford to board me for nothing. So I am ready to start whenever you are, Abner." "Suppose we get up early to-morror and start?" "How early?" "Three o'clock. Marm gets up at five. We must be on the road before that time."
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