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“All this turnin’ is good for the liver too you know,” she continued, as her son’s vinegary expression remained unaltered.,WELL, what do you want to play?” Billy asked, after the hubbub had a little subsided.,“But some people like their work, don’t they?” May Nell persisted. She was exploring strange country.,But even as he looked he saw two people coming; his mother and Jean, crossing the foot-bridge that led to the pasture side of the river. The throbbing in his head, the stifled lungs, interest in the capture of the prisoners,—all faded before this terrible dread.,“Why doesn’t your mama have a man to take care of the grounds?” she questioned after she had told him something of her parents and home.,“He must have gone to Clarence in the barn,” concluded Maria, setting off at a run.,As many of the hens and chickens as could be persuaded were ushered into the yard to add to the numerical strength of the menagerie.,Before school was dismissed Mannel Rodd, after earnest solicitation on the part of an older sister, was induced to mount the platform, where he shyly and with every evidence of stage fright recited,,“Well, I’ll be blowed, gosh! Mar’d larf to hear you tarlk. You’ll darn my socks, two bits or no two bits, ef Mar says.”,Mrs. Bennett looked fondly at Billy, then back to Mr. Smith. “Thank you,” she said slowly, trying to gather courage for what she was to say. “Billy must not be paid for doing his duty. With the money he has earned from the State I am sure we shall be able to help him through a good schooling; for the rest my husband’s son must win his own way.”,“The children will get too tired,” the Snake Charmer warned.,“Never mind the floors, Billy. You’ve worked hard already; run off and have a good time.”.