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Tracy Park

CHAPTER XXIX
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We've had enough of 'em.

Try t'other furnace.

Mr.Warner is allus takin' all kinds of trash, out of pity, and if he says "No," go to his wife; she'll get you in.' But the Warner factory, where Harold had once worked, was full of boys, whom the kind-hearted employer, or his wife, or both, had taken in, and there was no place for Harold.

So he waited awhile until Jerrie needed a new dress and his grandmother a bonnet, and then he tried Peterkin again, and this time with success.
'Yes, take him,' Peterkin said to his foreman, 'take him, and put him to the emery wheel; that's the place for such upstarts; that'll take the starch out of him double quick.

He's a bad egg, he is, and proud as Lucifer.


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