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Eben Holden

CHAPTER 3
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I went asleep then and did not awake for a long time.
When I got up at last she brought a big basin of water and washed me with such motherly tenderness in voice and manner that I have never forgotten it.

Uncle Eb lay sleeping on the lounge and when she had finished dressing me, Fred and I went out to play in the garden.

It was supper time in a little while and then, again, the woman winded the shell and the men came up from the field.

We sat down to eat with them, as we had done at noon, and Uncle Eb consented to spend the night after some urging.

He helped them with the milking, and as I stood beside him shot a jet of the warm white flood into my mouth, that tickled it so I ran away laughing.


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