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The Harvester

CHAPTER XIII
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We appear our best early in the morning, when the sun tops Medicine Woods and begins to light us up, and in the evening, just when she drops behind Onabasha back there, and strikes us with a few level rays.

Will you take the lines until I open this gate ?" She laid the twig in her lap on the white gloves and took the lines.
As the gate swung wide, Betsy walked through and stopped at the usual place.
"Now my girl," said the Harvester, "cross yourself, lean back, and take your ease.

This side that gate you are at home.

From here on belongs to us." "To you, you mean," said the Girl.
"To us, I mean," declared the Harvester.

"Don't you know that the 'worldly goods bestowal' clause in a marriage ceremony is a partial reality.


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