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Happy Pollyooly

CHAPTER X
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When they came into the country she was busy pointing out to him, with an even more excited delight the common railside objects.

It was more than a year since he had been in the country; and he had to be told earnestly and more than once that a cow was a cow and a sheep a baa-lamb, for he was inclined to class them all alike under the genus gee-gee.

When at last he did correctly hail a sheep as a baa-lamb, the triumphant pleasure of Pollyooly passed all bounds.
The Honourable John Ruffin read and observed the children, and observed the children and read.

But when they were nearing their journey's end, he shut up his book and said: "I think it will be well for you to cease to be my housekeeper at Pyechurch, Mrs.Bride.

People will ask you about our relations of course, because by the sea there is so much time for idle curiosity; and you had better tell them that you are a cousin of mine.


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