8/12 And then they dig up all the old stories they can find." "Oh no! The world's right enough, I tell you, and Mrs.Ellingsen must take the smith who works her smithy best. Besides it's as fixed as a vice, and the contract signed this morning. And it's pretty badly needed, for the money that mother borrowed last, it--it--whu!"-- he whistled--"has gone the same way as the rest. It disappears like smoke with her. It seems to me she trades backwards instead of forwards, and that the profits go the wrong way." "Now you're so nice and clean, that you shine. |