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"In throth it is; go an avick. Phadrick!" "I'm listenin'." "Phadrick, do you know the differ atween black an' white'?" "Atween black an' white? Hut, gorsoon, to be sure I do." "Well, an' what might it be, Phadrick, my larned Athiop? What might it be, I negotiate?"
What! you ask yourself, can this be a human habitation? but ere you have time to answer the question, a confused buzz of voices from within reaches your ear, and the appearance of a little "gorsoon," with a red, close-cropped head and Milesian face, having in his hand a short, white stick, or the thigh-bone of a horse, which you at once recognize as "the pass" of a village school, gives you the full information.
"Yes, and the other two eight and nine, I suppose?" commented Dr. Lyden. The defendant remained silent. "Do ye see now how well he began with the youngest the way we'd think 'twas the eldest!" resumed Dr. Lyden. "I think we may assume that a gorsoon male or female of eight or nine years is capable of setting a dog on the sheep." Here Darcy spoke again.
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