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Springhaven

CHAPTER IX
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Home with you, wife! And take Dan, if you will.
He'd do more good at the chipping job, with the full moon in his head so." "Then home I will take my son, Master Tugwell," his wife answered, with much dignity, for all the good wives of Springhaven heard him, and what would they think of her if she said nothing?
"Home I will take my son and yours, and the wisest place for him to abide in, with his father set agin him so.

Dannel, you come along of me.

I won't have my eldest boy gainsaid so." Zebedee Tugwell closed his lips, and went on with his proper business.
All the women would side with him if he left them the use of their own minds, and the sound of his wife's voice last; while all the men in their hearts felt wisdom.

But the young man, loath to be left behind, came doubtfully down to the stern of the boat, which was pushed off for the Rosalie.

And he looked at the place where he generally sat, and then at his father and the rest of them.
"No gappermouths here!" cried his father, sternly.


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