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23 - Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading) by Louisa May Alcott · U.S. Marine Operations in Korea - The Pusan Perimeter

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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two of Under the Lilacs by Louisa may Alcott.
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Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Under the Lilacs by Louisa may Alcott,
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two, A Boy's Bargain. It was some days
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Speaker 1: before the children were tired of talking over Ben's birthday party,
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Speaker 1: for it was a great event in their small world.
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Speaker 1: But gradually newer pleasures came to occupy their minds, and
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Speaker 1: they began to plan the nutting frolics which always followed
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Speaker 1: the early frosts. While waiting for Jack to open the
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Speaker 1: chestnut burrs, they varied the monotony of school life by
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Speaker 1: a lively scrimmage long known as the wood pile fight.
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Speaker 1: The girls liked to play in the half empty shed,
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Speaker 1: and the boys, merely for the fun of teasing. Declared
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Speaker 1: that they should not so blocked up the doorway as
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Speaker 1: fast as the girls cleared it, seeing that the squabble
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Speaker 1: was a merry one and the exercise better for all
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Speaker 1: than lounging in the sun or reading in school during recess.
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Speaker 1: Teacher did not interfere, and the barrier rose and fell
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Speaker 1: almost as regularly as the tide. It would be difficult
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Speaker 1: to say which side worked the harder, for the boys
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Speaker 1: went before school began to build up the barricade, and
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Speaker 1: the girls stayed after lessons were over to pull down
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Speaker 1: the last one made in afternoon recess. They had their
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Speaker 1: playtime first, and while the boys waited inside, they heard
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Speaker 1: the shouts of the girls, the banging of the wood,
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Speaker 1: and the final crash as the well packed pile went down. Then,
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Speaker 1: as the lassies came in, rosy, breathless and triumphant, the
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Speaker 1: lads rushed out to man the breach and labor gallantly
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Speaker 1: till all was as tight as hard blows could make it.
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Speaker 1: So the battle raged and bruised knuckles in fingers, torn clothes,
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Speaker 1: and rubbed shoes were the only wounds received, while a
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Speaker 1: great deal of fun was had out of the maltreated
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Speaker 1: logs and a lasting piece secured between two of the boys.
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Speaker 1: When the party was safely over, Sam began to fall
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Speaker 1: into his old way of tormenting Ben by calling names,
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Speaker 1: as it cost no exertion to invent trying speeches and
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Speaker 1: slyly utter them. When most likely to annoy, Ben bore
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Speaker 1: it as well as he could, But fortune favored him
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Speaker 1: at last, as it usually does the patient, and he
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Speaker 1: was able to make his own terms with his tormentor.
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Speaker 1: When the girls demolished the woodpile, they performed a jubilee
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Speaker 1: chorus on combs and tin kettles played like tambourines. The
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Speaker 1: boys celebrated their victories with shrill whistles and a drum
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Speaker 1: accompaniment with fists on the shed walls. Billy brought his drum,
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Speaker 1: and this was such an addition that Sam hunted up
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Speaker 1: an old one, one of his little brothers, in order
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Speaker 1: that he might join the drum corps. He had no sticks, however,
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Speaker 1: and casting about in his mind for a good substitute
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Speaker 1: for the genuine thing, bethought him of bull rushes.
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Speaker 2: Those will do first rate, and there are lots in
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Speaker 2: the mosh, if I could only get him.
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Speaker 1: He said to himself, and turned off from the road
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Speaker 1: on his way home to get a supply. Now this
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Speaker 1: marsh was a treacherous spot, and the tragic story was
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Speaker 1: told of a cow who got in there and sank
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Speaker 1: till nothing was visible but a pair of horns above
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Speaker 1: the mud. Which suffocated the unwary beast. For this reason
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Speaker 1: it was called cowslip Marsh, the wag said, though it
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Speaker 1: was generally believed to be so named for the yellow
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Speaker 1: flowers which grew there in great profusion. In the spring.
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Speaker 1: Sam had seen Ben hop nimbly from one tuft of
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Speaker 1: grass to another when he went to gather cowslips for Betty,
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Speaker 1: and the stout boy thought he could do the same.
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Speaker 1: Two or three heavy jumps landed him not among the bulrushes,
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Speaker 1: as he had hoped, but in a pool of muddy water,
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Speaker 1: where he sank up to his middle with alarming rapidity.
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Speaker 1: Much scared, he tried to wade out, but could only
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Speaker 1: flounder to a tussock of grass and cling there while
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Speaker 1: he endeavored to kick his legs free. He got them out,
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Speaker 1: but struggled in vain to coil them up or to
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Speaker 1: hoist his heavy body upon the very small island in
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Speaker 1: this sea of mud. Down they splashed again, and Sam
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Speaker 1: gave a dismal groan as he thought of the leeches
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Speaker 1: and water snakes which might be lying in wait below.
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Speaker 1: Visions of the lost cow also flashed across his agitated mind,
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Speaker 1: and he gave a despairing shout, very like a distracted moo.
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Speaker 1: Few people passed along the lane, and the sun was setting,
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Speaker 1: so the prospect of a night in the marsh nerved
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Speaker 1: Sam to make a frantic plunge towards the Bulrush island,
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Speaker 1: which was nearer than the mainland and looked firmer than
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Speaker 1: any tussock round him. But he failed to reach this
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Speaker 1: haven of rest, and was forced to stop at an
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Speaker 1: old stump, which stuck up, looking very like the moss
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Speaker 1: grown horns of the deer departed roosting here, Sam began
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Speaker 1: to shout for aid in every key possible to the
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Speaker 1: human voice. Such hoots and howls, whistles and roars never
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Speaker 1: woke the echoes of the lonely marsh before or scared
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Speaker 1: the portly frog who resided there in calm seclusion. He
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Speaker 1: hardly expected any reply but the astonished caw of the crow,
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Speaker 1: who sat upon a fence watching him with gloomy interest.
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Speaker 1: And when a cheerful hullo there sounded from the lane,
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Speaker 1: he was so grateful that tears of joy rolled down
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Speaker 1: his fat cheeks.
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Speaker 2: Come on, I'm in the mosh, Lend a hand and
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Speaker 2: get me out.
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Speaker 1: Bowled Sam anxiously waiting for his deliverer to appear, for
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Speaker 1: he could only see a hat bobbing along behind the
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Speaker 1: hazel bushes that fringed the lane. Steps crashed through the bushes,
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Speaker 1: and then over the wall came an active figure, at
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Speaker 1: the sight of which Sam was almost ready to dive
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Speaker 1: out of sight, for of all possible boys, who should
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Speaker 1: it be but Ben, the last person in the world
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Speaker 1: whom he would like to have see him in his
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Speaker 1: present pitiful plight?
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Speaker 3: Is it you, Sam? Well, you are in a nice fix.
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Speaker 1: And Ben's eyes began to twinkle with mischievous merriment, as
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Speaker 1: well they might, for Sam certainly was a spectacle to
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Speaker 1: convulse the soberest person perched unsteadily on the gnarled stump,
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Speaker 1: with his muddy legs drawn up, his dismal face splashed
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Speaker 1: with mud, and the whole lower half of his body
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Speaker 1: as black as if he had been dipped in an inkstand.
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Speaker 1: He resented such a comically doleful object that Ben danced about,
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Speaker 1: laughing like a naughty willow. The wisp, who, having led
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Speaker 1: a traveler astray, then fell to jeering at.
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Speaker 2: Him, Stop that, or I'll knock your head off.
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Speaker 1: Roared Sam in a rage.
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Speaker 3: Come on and do it. I give you a.
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Speaker 1: Leave, answered Ben, sparring away derisively, as the other tottered
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Speaker 1: on his perch and was forced to hold tight lest
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Speaker 1: he should tumble off.
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Speaker 2: Don't laugh, there's a good chap, but fish me out somehow,
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Speaker 2: or I shall get my death sitting here all wet and.
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Speaker 1: Cold wind, Sam changing his tune and feeling bitterly that
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Speaker 1: Ben had the upper hand. Now Ben felt it also,
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Speaker 1: and though a very good natured boy, could not resist
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Speaker 1: the temptation to enjoy this advantage for a moment at least, I.
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Speaker 3: Want to laugh if I can help it. Only you
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Speaker 3: do look so like a fat speckled frog. I may
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Speaker 3: not be able to hold in. I'll pull you up
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Speaker 3: pretty soon, but first I'm going to talk to you, Sam.
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Speaker 1: Said Ben, sobering down as he took a seat on
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Speaker 1: the little point of land nearest the stranded Samuel.
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Speaker 2: Hurry up, then, I'm stiff as a board now, and
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Speaker 2: it's no fun sitting here on this naughty old.
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Speaker 1: Thing, growled Sam with a discontented squirm.
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Speaker 3: Dare say not, but it's good for you, as you
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Speaker 3: say when you wrap me over the head, look here,
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Speaker 3: I've got you in the type place, and I don't
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Speaker 3: mean to help you a bit till you promised to
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Speaker 3: let me alone.
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Speaker 1: Now then, and Ben's face grew stern with his remembered
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Speaker 1: wrongs as he grimly eyed his discomfited foe.
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Speaker 2: I'll promise fast enough if you won't tell anyone about.
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Speaker 1: This, answered Sam, surveying himself and his surroundings with great disgust.
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Speaker 3: I shall do as I like about that.
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Speaker 2: Then I won't promise a thing. I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: have the whole school laughing at.
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Speaker 1: Me, protested Sam, who hated to be ridiculed even more
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Speaker 1: than Ben did. Very well, good night, and Ben walked
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Speaker 1: off with his hand in his pockets as coolly as
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Speaker 1: if the bog was Sam's favorite retreat.
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Speaker 2: Hold On, don't be in such a hurry.
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Speaker 1: Shouted Sam, seeing little hope of rescue if he let
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Speaker 1: this chance go all right, and back came Ben, ready
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Speaker 1: for further negotiations.
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Speaker 2: I'll promise not to plague you if you'll promise not
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Speaker 2: to tell on me. Is that what you want?
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Speaker 3: Now, I come to think of it, there is one
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Speaker 3: thing more I like to make a good bargain when.
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Speaker 1: I begin said Ben with a shrewd air.
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Speaker 3: You must promise keep Mosic quiet too. He follows your lead,
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Speaker 3: and if you tell him to stop it, he will.
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Speaker 3: If I was big enough, i'd make you hold your tongues.
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Speaker 3: I ain't, so we'll try this way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'll see to motes. Now bring on a rail.
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Speaker 2: There's a good fellow. I've got a horrid cramp in.
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Speaker 1: My legs, began Sam, thinking he had bought help dearly,
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Speaker 1: yet admiring Ben's cleverness in making the most of his chance.
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Speaker 1: Ben brought the rail, but just as he was about
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Speaker 1: to lay it from the mainland to the nearest tussock,
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Speaker 1: he stopped, saying, with the naughty twinkle in his black
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Speaker 1: eyes again, one.
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Speaker 3: More thing must be so the first, and then I'll
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Speaker 3: get you ashore. Promise you won't plague the girls either,
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Speaker 3: especially Bab and Betty. You pull their hair and they
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Speaker 3: don't like it.
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Speaker 2: Don't neither. Wouldn't touch that Bab for a dollar. She
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Speaker 2: scratches and bites like a mad cat.
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Speaker 1: Was Sam's sulky reply.
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Speaker 3: Glad of it. She can take care of herself. Betty can't.
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Speaker 3: And if you touch one of her pig tails, I'll
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Speaker 3: up and tell right out how I found you sniveling
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Speaker 3: in the marsh like a great baby.
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Speaker 1: So now, and Ben emphasized his threat with a blow
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Speaker 1: of the suspended rail, which splashed the water over poor Sam,
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Speaker 1: quenching his last spark of resistance.
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Speaker 2: Stop I will, I will true as you live and.
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Speaker 1: Breathe demanded Ben, sternly binding him by the most solemn
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Speaker 1: oath he knew. True as I live in echoed Sam, dolefully,
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Speaker 1: relinquishing his favorite pastime of pulling Betty's braids and asking
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Speaker 1: if she was at home.
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Speaker 3: I'll come over there and crook fingers on the bargain.
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Speaker 1: Said Ben, settling the rail and running over it to
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Speaker 1: the tuft, then bridging another pool and crossing again till
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Speaker 1: he came to the stump.
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Speaker 2: I never thought of that way.
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Speaker 1: Said Sam, watching him with much inward chagrin at his
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Speaker 1: own failure.
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Speaker 3: I should think you'd written look before you're leaping your
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Speaker 3: CuPy book, enough to give the idea in to your
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Speaker 3: stupid head.
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Speaker 1: Come crook, commanded Ben, leaning forward with extended little finger.
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Speaker 1: Sam obediently performed the ceremony, and then Ben sat astride
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Speaker 1: one of the horns of the stump, while the muddy
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Speaker 1: crusoe went slowly across the rail from point to point
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Speaker 1: till he landed safely on the shore. When he turned
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Speaker 1: about and asked with an ungrateful.
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Speaker 2: Jeer's going to become of you? Oh? Look before you
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Speaker 2: leap mud.
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Speaker 3: Turtles can only send on a stump and balls they're
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Speaker 3: taken off. But frogs have legs worth something in another
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Speaker 3: freight of the little.
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Speaker 1: Water, answered Ben, hopping away in an opposite direction, since
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Speaker 1: the pools between him and Sam were too wide for
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Speaker 1: even his lively legs. Sam waddled off to the brook
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Speaker 1: in the lane to rinse the mud from his nether
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Speaker 1: man before facing his mother, and was just wringing himself
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Speaker 1: out when Ben came up, breathless but good natured, for
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Speaker 1: he felt that he had made an excellent bargain for
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Speaker 1: himself and friends.
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Speaker 3: Better wash your face. It's as speckled as a tiger lily.
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Speaker 3: Here's my handkerchief of yours is wet.
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Speaker 1: He said, pulling out a dingy article which had evidently
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Speaker 1: already done service as a towel. Don't want it, muttered
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Speaker 1: Sam gruffly, as he poured the water out of his
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Speaker 1: muddy shoes.
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Speaker 3: I was taught to say thank you when folks come
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Speaker 3: man the scrapes. But you never had much brain up.
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Speaker 3: Then you do live in that house with the gambrel.
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Speaker 1: Roof, retorted Ben sarcastically, quoting Sam's frequent boast. Then he
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Speaker 1: walked off, much disgusted with the ingratitude of man. Sam
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Speaker 1: forgot his manners, but he remembered his promise and kept
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Speaker 1: it so well that all the school wondered. No one
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Speaker 1: could guess the secret of Ben's power over him, though
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Speaker 1: it was evident that he had gained it in some
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Speaker 1: sudden way, for at the least sign of Sam's former tricks,
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Speaker 1: Ben would crook his little finger and wag it warningly.
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Speaker 3: Or call out bull rushes.
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Speaker 1: And Sam subsided with reluctant submission, to the great amazement
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Speaker 1: of his mates. When asked what it meant, Sam turned sulky,
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Speaker 1: but Ben had much fun out of it, assuring the
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Speaker 1: other boys that those were the so mines and password
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Speaker 1: of a secret society to which he and Sam belonged,
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Speaker 1: and promised to tell them all about it if Sam
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Speaker 1: would give him leave, which of course he would not.
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Speaker 1: This mystery and the vain endeavors to find it out,
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Speaker 1: caused a lull in the war of the wood pile,
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Speaker 1: and before any new game was invented, something happened which
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Speaker 1: gave the children plenty to talk about for a time.
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Speaker 1: A week after the secret alliance was formed, Ben ran
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Speaker 1: in one evening with a letter for miss Celia. He
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Speaker 1: found her enjoying the cheery blaze of the pine cones
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Speaker 1: the little girls had picked up for her, and Bab
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Speaker 1: and Betty sat in the small chairs, rocking luxuriously as
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Speaker 1: they took turns to throw on the pretty fuel. Miss
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Speaker 1: Celia turned quickly to receive the expected letter, glanced at
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Speaker 1: the writing postmark and stamp with an air of delighted surprise,
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Speaker 1: then clasped it close in both hands, saying, as she
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Speaker 1: hurried out of the room.
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Speaker 4: He has come. He has come. Now you may tell them, Thorny.
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Speaker 1: Tell us what, asked Bab, pricking up her ears at once.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's only that George has come, and I suppose
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Speaker 5: we shall go and get married right.
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Speaker 1: Away, answered Thorny, rubbing his hands as if he enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the prospect.
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Speaker 3: Are you going to be married?
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Speaker 1: Asked Betty so soberly that the boy shouted and Thorny,
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Speaker 1: with difficulty, composed himself sufficiently to explain.
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Speaker 5: No child, not just yet, but sister is, and I
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Speaker 5: must go and see that she is all done up
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Speaker 5: ship shape and bring you home some wedding cake. Ben,
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Speaker 5: we'll take care of you while I'm gone.
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Speaker 1: When shall you go? Asked Bab, beginning to long for
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Speaker 1: her share of cake tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: I guess Celia has been packed and ready for a week.
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Speaker 5: We agreed to meet George in New York and be
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Speaker 5: married as soon as he got his best clothesin' We
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Speaker 5: are men of our word, and off we go. Won't
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Speaker 5: it be fun?
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Speaker 6: But when will you come back again?
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Speaker 1: Questioned Betty, looking anxious.
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Speaker 5: Don't know. Sister wants to come soon, but I'd rather
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Speaker 5: have our honeymoon somewhere else. Niagara, Newfoundland, West Point or
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Speaker 5: the Rocky Mountains.
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Speaker 1: Said Thorny, mentioning a few of the places he most
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Speaker 1: desired to see.
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Speaker 3: Do you like him?
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Speaker 1: Asked Ben, very naturally, wondering if the new master would
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Speaker 1: approve of the young man of all.
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Speaker 5: Work, don't I? George is regularly jolly, though now he's
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Speaker 5: a minister. Perhaps he'll stiffen up and turn sober, won't
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Speaker 5: it be a shame if he does.
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Speaker 1: And Thorny looked alarmed at the thought of losing his
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Speaker 1: congenial friend.
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Speaker 6: Tell about him, miss Celius, that you might.
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Speaker 1: Put in Bab, whose experience of jolly ministers had been small.
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Speaker 5: Oh, there isn't much about it. We met in Switzerland,
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Speaker 5: going up Mount Saint Bernard in a storm.
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Speaker 1: And where the good dogs live, inquired Betty, hoping they
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Speaker 1: would come into the story.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we spent the night up there, and George gave
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Speaker 5: us his room. The house was soul full and wouldn't
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Speaker 5: let me go down a steep place where I wanted to.
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Speaker 5: And Celia thought he'd save my life and was very
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Speaker 5: good to him. Then we kept meeting, and the first
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Speaker 5: thing I knew she went and was engaged to him.
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Speaker 5: I didn't care, only she would come home so he
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Speaker 5: might go on studying hard and get through quick. That
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Speaker 5: was a year ago. And last winter we were in
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Speaker 5: New York at uncle's, and then in the spring I
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Speaker 5: was sick and we came here. And that's all.
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Speaker 1: Shall you live here always? When you come back, asked
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Speaker 1: Bab as Thorny paused for breath.
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Speaker 5: Celia wants to I shall go to college so I
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Speaker 5: don't mind. George is going to help the old minister
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Speaker 5: here and see how he likes it. I'm to study
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Speaker 5: with him, and if he is as pleasant as he
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Speaker 5: used to be, we shall have capital times. See if
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Speaker 5: we don't.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if he'll want me.
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Speaker 1: Round, said Ben, feeling no desire to be a tramp again.
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Speaker 5: I do, so you needn't fret about that, my.
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Speaker 1: Hearty, answered Thorny, with a resounding slap on the shoulder,
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Speaker 1: which reassured Ben more than any promises.
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Speaker 6: I'd like to see a live wedding, then we could
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Speaker 6: play it with our doll. I got a nice piece
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Speaker 6: of mosquito in for a bell, and Volinta's white dress
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Speaker 6: is clean. Do you suppose miss Celia will ask us
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Speaker 6: to hers?
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Speaker 1: Said Betty to Bab as the boys began to discuss
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Speaker 1: Saint Bernard dogs with spirit. I wish I could DearS,
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Speaker 1: answered a voice behind them, And there was miss Celia,
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Speaker 1: looking so happy that the little girls wondered what the
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Speaker 1: letter could have said to give her such bright eyes
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Speaker 1: and smiling lips.
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Speaker 7: Shall not be gone long or be a bit changed
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Speaker 7: when I come back to live among you years, I
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Speaker 7: hope for I am fond of the old place now,
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Speaker 7: and Nina shall be home.
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Speaker 1: She added, caressing the yellow heads as if they were
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Speaker 1: dear to her. Oh goody, cried bab while Betty whispered
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Speaker 1: with both arms round miss Celia.
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Speaker 6: I don't think we go bed well.
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Speaker 3: Any one else came.
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Speaker 4: Here to live. It is very pleasant to hear say that,
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Speaker 4: and I mean to make others feel so if I can.
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Speaker 4: I have been trying a little this summer. But when
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Speaker 4: I come back, I shall go to work in ernest
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Speaker 4: to be a good minister's wife. And you must help me.
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Speaker 1: We will, promised, both children, ready for anything except preaching
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Speaker 1: in the high pulpit. Then miss Celia turned to Ben,
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Speaker 1: saying in the respectful way that always made him feel
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Speaker 1: at least twenty five.
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Speaker 4: We shall be off to morrow, and I leave you
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Speaker 4: in charge. Go on just as if we were here,
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Speaker 4: and be sure nothing will be changed. As far as
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Speaker 4: you're concerned, WI will come back.
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Speaker 1: Ben's face beamed at that, but the only way he
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Speaker 1: could express his relief was by making such a blaze
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Speaker 1: in honor of the occasion that he nearly roasted the company.
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Speaker 1: Next morning, the brother and sister slipped quietly away and
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Speaker 1: the children hurried to school, eager to tell the great
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Speaker 1: news that miss Celia and Thorny had gone to be
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Speaker 1: married and were coming back to live here forever and ever.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty two.