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Beatrice

CHAPTER XV
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No, don't go up to the farm.

He is not a pleasant sight, poor fellow.

When I got up there, Beecham Bones was spouting away to the mob--his long hair flying about his back--exciting them to resist laws made by brutal thieving landlords, and all that kind of gibberish; telling them that they would be supported by a great party in Parliament, &c., &c.

The people, however, took it all good-naturedly enough.

They had a beautiful effigy of your father swinging on a pole, with a placard on his breast, on which was written, 'The robber of the widow and the orphan,' and they were singing Welsh songs.


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