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A Girl Of The Limberlost

CHAPTER VIII
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"You ist bet I will!" he said.
"Mother, how could you ?" asked Elnora as they walked up the path.
"How could I, missy?
You better ask how couldn't I?
I just couldn't! Not for enough to pay, my road tax! Not for enough to pay the road tax, and the dredge tax, too!" "Aunt Margaret always has been lovely to me, and I don't think it's fair to worry her." "I choose to be lovely to Billy, and let her sweat out her own worries just as she has me, these sixteen years.

There is nothing in all this world so good for people as taking a dose of their own medicine.

The difference is that I am honest.

I just say in plain English, 'if they don't treat you right, come to me.' They have only said it in actions and inferences.

I want to teach Mag Sinton how her own doses taste, but she begins to sputter before I fairly get the spoon to her lips.


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