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A Dozen Ways Of Love

CHAPTER IV
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And then the old woman moved her tub likewise to another bush, and likewise, and likewise, until she had milked four bushes, and she took up her tub, and it seemed awful heavy, and she had her shawl over it, and was going up the hill.
'So the mother said to the girl, "Run, run, and see what she has got in it." For they weren't up to the ways of witches, and they were astonished like.

But the girl, she said, "Oh, mother, I don't like." Well, she was timid, anyway, the eldest girl.

But the second girl was a romping thing, not afraid of anything, so they sent her.

By this time the wicked old woman was high on the hill; so she ran and ran, but she could not catch her before she was in at her own door; but that second girl, she was not afraid of anything, so she runs in at the door, too.
Now, in those days they used to have sailing-chests that lock up; they had iron bars over them, so you could keep anything in that was a secret.

They got them from the ships, and this old woman kept her milk in hers.


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