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Erema

CHAPTER XXI
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But please to look here.

What do you call this?
Is this no reward?
Is this not enough?
Major, if you please, what do you call this?
What a pity you have had your breakfast!" "A blessing--if this was to be my breakfast.

I call that, my dear, the very smallest egg I have seen since I took sparrows' nests.

No wonder they sell them at twelve a penny.

I congratulate you upon your first egg, my dear Mary." "Well, I don't care," replied Mrs.Hockin, who had the sweetest temper in the world.


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