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Brownsmith’s Boy

CHAPTER SEVEN
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Here, stretch out your arms." I did so.
"That's right," he said.

"Now, kick out your legs as if you were swimming." I looked up at him sharply, for it seemed so strange for him to say that just after I had been thinking of being nearly drowned.

I kicked out, though, as he told me.
"No bones broken there," he said; and he proceeded then to feel my ribs.
"Capital!" he said after a few moments.

"Why, there's nothing the matter but a little bark off your forehead, and I'm afraid you'll have a black eye.

A bit of sticking-plaster will set you right after all, and we sha'n't want the doctor." "Doctor! Oh! no," I said.


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