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The Iron Rule

CHAPTER IV
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Then with the bread and water she went up to her son's chamber.
"Bless me! what a boy!" fell from the lips of Mrs.Howland, as she pushed open the door and saw the disordered condition of the room.
The chairs were scattered about the apartment, and through the caning of one of them was a large hole.

The wash-bowl and pitcher were on the floor, and a good deal of water spilled around.

The bed-clothes were nearly all dragged off; and it was plain, from the feathers scattered about, that Andrew had been amusing himself with jumping on the bed.

Lifting her eyes to the tester, Mrs.Howland saw nearly a yard of the valance torn away and hanging down.
"Oh, what a boy!" she again murmured.

"He seems possessed with a spirit of mischief and destruction.


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