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A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s

CHAPTER VII
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Squeezing hurriedly into seats with the others, Addison and I faced round.

Bear-Tone stood in front of the teacher's desk, near the stovepipe, rubbing his huge hands together, for the night was cold.

He was smiling, too--a friendly, genial smile that seemed actually to brighten the room.
If he had looked gigantic to us in the dim doorway, he now looked colossal.

In fact, he was six feet five inches tall and three feet across the shoulders.

He had legs like mill-posts and arms to match; he wore big mittens, because he could not buy gloves large enough for his hands.


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