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Hide and Seek

CHAPTER IV
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She knows fancy-work and cuttin' out--would ye ever have thought it?
And I'll show her how to give the workhouse the go-by to-morrow, if she only holds out, and keeps in her senses.

Stop where you are, Peck! I'm going to make Jubber put his dirty hand into his pocket and pull out some money; and that's a sight worth stoppin' to see any day in the week.' "I waited as she told me; and she called for Jubber, just as if he'd been her servant; and he come out of the circus.

'I want ten shillings advance of wages for that lady on the trunk,' says Peggy.

He laughed at her.

'Show your ugly teeth at me again,' says she, 'and I'll box your ears.


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