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20 - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie · Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen of Folk Tales Every Child Should Know. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Ellen Preckle. Folk Tales Every
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  Speaker 1: Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright maybe chapter nineteen, the
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  Speaker 1: story of Tom Tit top. Well, Once upon a time
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  Speaker 1: there rural woman, and she baked five pies. And when
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  Speaker 1: they come out of the oven, they was that over baked.
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  Speaker 1: The crust were too hard to eat. So she says
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  Speaker 1: to her doctor. Daughter says, she put you them there
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  Speaker 1: pies on the shelf, and leave em there a little
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  Speaker 1: and they'll come again. She meant, you know, the crust
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  Speaker 1: it get soft. But the gal she says to herself,
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  Speaker 1: what if they'll come again, I'll eat em now. And
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  Speaker 1: she set to work and ate em all first and last.
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  Speaker 1: While come supper time. The woman she said, good you
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  Speaker 1: and get one of em. Dare pies. I dare say
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  Speaker 1: they've come again? Now the gal she went and she looked,
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  Speaker 1: and there warn't nothing but the dishes. So back she
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  Speaker 1: come and says she, no, they ain't come again. Not
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  Speaker 1: none on em, says the mother, not none on 'em,
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  Speaker 1: says she. Well, come again or not come again, says
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  Speaker 1: the woman. I'll have one for supper. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: if they'd come, says the gal. But I can't, says she.
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  Speaker 1: Go you and bring the best of 'em. Best or worst,
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  Speaker 1: says the gal. I've ate them all, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: have one till that's come again. Well the woman, she
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  Speaker 1: were wholly bate, and she took her spin into the
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  Speaker 1: door to spin, and as she spann, she sang, my
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  Speaker 1: darter ha ate five five pies to day, my daughter
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  Speaker 1: ha ate five five pies to day. The king he
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  Speaker 1: wore a comin down the street and he heard her sing.
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  Speaker 1: But what she sang he couldn't her. So he stopped
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  Speaker 1: and said, what were that? You? Was a singing of woman.
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  Speaker 1: The woman she were ashamed to let him have what
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  Speaker 1: her daughter had been adoin'. So she sang stids o
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  Speaker 1: that my daughter has spun five five skains to day.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter has spun five five skains to day, sarz
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  Speaker 1: em Mine said the king, I never heard tell if
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  Speaker 1: any one has could do that. Then he said, look,
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  Speaker 1: ye here, I want a wife, and I'll marry your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: But look you here, says he. Eleven months out of
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  Speaker 1: the year, she shall have all the vittles she likes
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  Speaker 1: to eat, and all the gowns she likes to get,
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  Speaker 1: and all the company she likes to have. The last
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  Speaker 1: month of the year, she'll had to spend five skins
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  Speaker 1: every day, and if she don't, I shall kill her.
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  Speaker 1: All right, says the woman, for she felt what a
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  Speaker 1: great marriage that was. And as for them five skins
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  Speaker 1: when to come too, there'd be plenty of ways of
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  Speaker 1: getting out of it, and likeliest he'd have forgot about it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: so they were married, and for eleven months the gal
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  Speaker 1: had all the vittles she liked to eat, and all
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  Speaker 1: the gowns she liked to get, and all the company
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  Speaker 1: she liked to have. But when the time was getting over,
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  Speaker 1: she begun to think about them. There are skeins, and
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  Speaker 1: to wonder if he had em in mind. But not
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  Speaker 1: one word did he say about him, and she wholly
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  Speaker 1: thought he'd forgot em. Howsoever, the last day of the month,
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  Speaker 1: he takes her to her room she'd never set eyes on,
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  Speaker 1: for there warn't nothing in it but a spinning wheel
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  Speaker 1: and a stool, And says he now me, dear Harry'll
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  Speaker 1: be shut in tomorrow with some vinols and some flax.
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  Speaker 1: An if you hain't spun five skains by the night, yer,
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  Speaker 1: he'll go off and away he went about his business.
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  Speaker 1: Well she were that frightened. She now has been such
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  Speaker 1: a gapless galp. She didn't say much jest know how
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  Speaker 1: to spin? And what was she to do to morrow?
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  Speaker 1: When no one come nigh to help her? She sat
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  Speaker 1: down on the stool in the kitchen and lork how
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  Speaker 1: she did cry, how swever? All on a sudden she
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  Speaker 1: hardest her to knock, and low on the door. She
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  Speaker 1: uped and opened it, and what should she see but
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  Speaker 1: a small little black thing with a long tail, and
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  Speaker 1: looked right up at her right curious and said, what
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  Speaker 1: are you a cryin for? What's that to you? Says she?
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  Speaker 1: If you mind that said, but tell me what you're
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  Speaker 1: a cryin' for. That won't do me no good if
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  Speaker 1: I do, says she. You don't know that that said,
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  Speaker 1: and twirled that ste around, Well, says she, that won't
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  Speaker 1: do no harm. If that don't do no good. And
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  Speaker 1: she upped and told about the pies and the skeins
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  Speaker 1: and everything This is what I'll do, says the little
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  Speaker 1: black thing. I'll come to your window every mornin' and
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  Speaker 1: take the flax and bring it spun at night. What's
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  Speaker 1: your pay? Says she? That the doubted the corners of
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  Speaker 1: that size, And that's said, I'll give you three guesses
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  Speaker 1: every night to guess me name. An if ye hain't
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  Speaker 1: guessed it afore the month's up, you shall be mine. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name afore
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  Speaker 1: the month was up. All right, says she. I agree,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that says and lork how that twirled? That's tail. Well.
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  Speaker 1: The next day her husband he took her to the
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  Speaker 1: room and there was the flax and the day's victuals
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  Speaker 1: Now there's the black says he. An, if that ain't
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  Speaker 1: spun up this night, off go your head. And then
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  Speaker 1: he went out and locked the door. He'd hardly gun
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  Speaker 1: when there was a lookin' again the window she up,
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  Speaker 1: and he opened it. And they're sure enough with a
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  Speaker 1: little loot thing a settin on the ledge. Where's the flax,
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  Speaker 1: says he? Here to be, says she, And she gaunded
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  Speaker 1: it to him. Well, come the evenin' a knocking, came
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  Speaker 1: again to the window. She uped, and she opened it,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a little lood with five skins of
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  Speaker 1: flax on his arm. Here to be, says he, And
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  Speaker 1: he gained it to her. Now, what's my name? Says he?
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  Speaker 1: What is that bill? Says she? No, that ain't, says he.
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  Speaker 1: And he twirled his tail. Is that ned, says she? No,
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  Speaker 1: that ain't, says he. And he twirled his tail. Well
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  Speaker 1: is that mark, says she. N that ain't, says he.
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  Speaker 1: And he twirled his tail arder and away he flew. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when our husband he come in, there was the five
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  Speaker 1: skins ready for him. I see, I shure'n't have fort
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  Speaker 1: to kill yo to night, madare, says he. You'll have
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  Speaker 1: your victuals and your flax in the mornin, says he.
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  Speaker 1: And away he goes a livery day. The flax and
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  Speaker 1: the vittles they was brought, and ivery day that their
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  Speaker 1: little black imp beet used to come for mornin's and evenin's,
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  Speaker 1: and all the day. The darter, she said, A tryin
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  Speaker 1: for to think of dames to say to it when
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  Speaker 1: to come at night, But she never hot on the
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  Speaker 1: right one. And as that got towards the end of
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  Speaker 1: the month, the impet began to look so malicebule, and
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  Speaker 1: that turtle tales that faster and faster each time she
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  Speaker 1: gave a guess. At last he came to the last day.
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  Speaker 1: But one the impith that come that night along into
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  Speaker 1: five skeins, and that said, what ain't you got my
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  Speaker 1: name yet? Is that? Nicodemus says she no, tain't. That
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  Speaker 1: says is it? Samuel says she no tain't. That says ah, well,
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  Speaker 1: is that? Methusalem says she no tain't? That norther? He says,
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  Speaker 1: Then that looks at her with that's eyes like a
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  Speaker 1: cool of fire, and that says woman, there's only tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: and then you'll be mine and away to flew. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she felt that horrid howsome diver. She hired the king
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  Speaker 1: comin along the passage. In he came, and when he
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  Speaker 1: sees the five skeins, he says, says he well, me
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  Speaker 1: dare says he, I don't see, but what you'll allow
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  Speaker 1: your skins ready to morrow night as well? And as
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  Speaker 1: I reckoned, I sha'n't have to kill ya. I'll have
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  Speaker 1: supper in here to night. So they brought supper and
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  Speaker 1: another stool for him, and down the two they shot. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't it put a mouth or a shoe. When
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  Speaker 1: he stops and begins to laugh, what is it? Says
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  Speaker 1: she Ah says he. I was out a huntin' to day,
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  Speaker 1: and I got away to a place in the wood
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  Speaker 1: i'd never seen afore, and there was an old chalk pit,
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  Speaker 1: and I heard a sort of hummin' kind o. So
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  Speaker 1: I got off may alby, and I went right quiet
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  Speaker 1: to the pit, and I looked down. What should there
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  Speaker 1: be but the funniest little black thing you ever set
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  Speaker 1: eyes on? And what was that the doing on? But
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  Speaker 1: that he had a little spinnin wheel, and that were
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  Speaker 1: a spinnin' wonderful fast, and a twirl in that's tail,
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  Speaker 1: and has that span that sang, NIMMI, nim me not.
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  Speaker 1: My name's tom tit tot well. When the dorder heard this,
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  Speaker 1: she feared as if she could have jumped out of
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  Speaker 1: her skin for joy. But she didn't say a word
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  Speaker 1: next day that their little thing looked so malice. For
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  Speaker 1: when he came for the flax, and when night came
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  Speaker 1: she heard that a knockin' again the window panes. She
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  Speaker 1: opened the winder, and that came right in on the ledge.
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  Speaker 1: That were grinnin from air to air, and ooh, those
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  Speaker 1: tail were twirlin' round so fast. What's my name? That says?
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  Speaker 1: Has that gaunt herle skeins? Is that Solomon? She says,
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  Speaker 1: pretended to be afeared? No tain't, that says, And that
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  Speaker 1: come further into the room, Well, is that, zebidee says
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  Speaker 1: she again, No taint, says the impact. And then that
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  Speaker 1: laughed and twirled that's tail till you couldn't hardly see it.
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  Speaker 1: Take time, woman, that says. Next, gas in your mine,
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  Speaker 1: and that stretched out, that's black hands at her. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she backed up as step or two, and she looked
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  Speaker 1: at it. Then she laughed out and says she a
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  Speaker 1: pointing of her finger at it. Nimmi, nimmi, not your
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  Speaker 1: name's tom tit totch. Well, when that hurt her, that
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  Speaker 1: struck awful, and away that flew into the dark as
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  Speaker 1: she never saw it no more. End of chapter nineteen