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The Big Brother

CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER IX.
WEARY WAITING.
The days seemed very long to Tom and Joe and little Judie after Sam left on his journey.

They had nothing to do but to sit still in their corners among the roots all day, and time always drags very slowly when people are doing nothing.

Their provisions, as we know, were already cooked,--enough of them at least, to last a week, and before Sam left he had made them bring more than a bushel of sweet potatoes and all the corn they could find which was still soft enough to eat, and store it away for use if his return should be delayed in any way.

The result was that their legs got no stretching, and they became moody, dispirited and unhappy before the second day of Sam's absence had come to an end.

They found doing nothing the hardest and the dullest work they ever had done in their lives.


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