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Brownsmith’s Boy

CHAPTER TEN
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Get on with your work." Shock ran by us with a rush, mounted his ladder, and I hurried up mine, to go on picking as well, while, panting and hot, smarting with blows and anger, I wondered what Old Brownsmith would say to me for what I had done.
He only went along the path, however, with his cats, as he saw that Ike was there, and the apple-picking went on till he was out of sight.
"Ah! you're only a bit dirty," said Ike to me rather less roughly than usual.

"Come down and I'll give you a brush." "There you are," he said, after performing the task for me.

"Was he up to his larks with you ?" "Yes," I said; "he has been pelting me, and he pretended to fall; and when I went to help him he struck me, and I couldn't stand that." "So you licked him well?
That's right, boy.

He won't do it again.

If he does, give it him, and teach him better.


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