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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 1: The Broken Window
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The boy's a bit of a pickle, no doubt; and I very near gave him a thrashing, myself, a fortnight since, for on going up to the seven-acre field, I found him riding bare backed on that young pony I intended for Kate." "You don't say so, William!" Mrs.Ellison exclaimed, greatly shocked.

"I never heard of such an impudent thing.

I really wonder you didn't thrash him." "Well, perhaps I should have done so, my dear; but the fact is, I caught sight of him some time before he saw me, and he was really sitting her so well that I could not find it in my heart to call out.

He was really doing me a service.

The pony had never been ridden, and was as wild as a wild goat.


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