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With Wolfe in Canada

CHAPTER 2: The Showman's Grandchild
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I am sure he will only take you when it is fine, and he will look after you well.
You like him, don't you ?" "Oh! I do, grampa; and you know, it was him who got me out of the water, else I should never have come out, and never have seen grampa again; and he has made me a boat.

Oh! yes, I do like him!" "That's right, my dear; always stick to those who are good to you." A few days after this, as James was sailing the toy boat, for Aggie's amusement, in a pool, a boy sauntered up.

He was somewhat taller than James Walsham, and at least two years older.

He was well dressed, and James knew him as the nephew and heir of the squire.
It was not often that Richard Horton came down into the village.

He was accustomed to be treated with a good deal of deference at the Hall, and to order servants and grooms about pretty much as he chose, and the indifference with which the fisher boys regarded him offended him greatly.


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