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“Now Mis’ Stephens, call the boys,” requested Mrs. Wopp who was the busiest of the group. “No, no! They’ll kill us!” “But the girls and small fry can’t come in on that. Besides, that little city kid’ll be lonesome if I leave her.”.
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“I dassent do it, Betty,” replied Moses. “Anyhow this ole pair of scissors ’d do the job better.”I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
Thus adjured, Howard began, while Mrs. Wopp leaned back in her chair rocking vigorously.
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From where he stood Billy could see the distress in her face. He must think of a way to get her, and he must, must hurry! “No quarreling now. Come, Clarence, do as your mother asks.” Betty, orphaned at the age of six, had been adopted by the kind-hearted Mrs. Wopp. The child found her chief joy in life, outside of Jethro, Nancy and Job, in a flower-bed. A small plot of ground had been allotted her for her own use, and there every spring for the last four years her precious flowers had bloomed and had filled her eyes with brightness and her soul with gladness. Morning-glories and nasturtiums were the surest to bloom. They climbed the strings so gracefully and turned the old weather-beaten fence where they grew into a tapestry of gorgeous dyes. “Gosh!” he exclaimed, as Isobel closed on the last startlingly unexpected note, “that’s where some feller planks his strawr hat on a beauty butterfly!”.
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