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There was one wearing a pale pink jacket, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough "wropper" or over-all the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning.
'How old do you call him, then? 'Thirty or so. 'More like forty, broke in an old milkman near, in a long white pinafore or 'wropper, and with the brim of his hat tied down, so that he looked like a woman. ''A was born before our Great Weir was builded, and I hadn't man's wages when I laved water there.
I wonder they ain't never give it ter you befo'. It's a heap mo' homey like than the gues' chamber an' I'm thinkin' it's agonter be quieter an' cooler an' much mo' habitationable." "Yes, Billy, I'm sure it will be." There was a plaintive suggestion of tears in her voice. "Now, Miss Ann, you git in yo' wropper an' lay down a spell an' I'm gonter fotch you a cup er tea.
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