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The Major

CHAPTER VI
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It would do in the afternoon.

And it was awful hot in school." "Awful ?" said the doctor.
"Well, very exceedingly then--and the kids were very tired and Miss Mutton was as cross as anything." "It was no wonder.

How many kids were there for her to watch ?" "Oh, Papa, you said 'kids!'" "I was just quoting my young daughter." "And she said we were to get out this afternoon an hour earlier," continued Jane, ignoring his criticism, "and so I am going to take my bicycle and go with Nora and the girls down to the freight sheds." "The freight sheds ?" "Yes, Larry and Joe have come in, and Rover and Rosie--she's the cow, and they milked her every day twice and drank the milk and they used to have their meals together in the car." "Rosie, too?
Very interesting indeed." "Now, Papa, you must not laugh at me.

It is very interesting.

They all came for days and days together in the car from somewhere down East, Ontario, I think.


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