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"You are puttin' your eyes out, workin' so stiddy, honey, and it's

gettin' dark"

Mabel aroused herself from her intent attitude, and looked at the

There was a brassy glimmer in the cloudy west; the rest of

the sky was covered by thick vapors

"The days are still very short," she said, folding her work, and

beco and close study of the

intricate pattern

It was Mammy Phillis who had interrupted her reverie, and she now

laid an armful of seasoned hickory wood upon the hearth, and set

herself aboutup the ashes which had

accuether, and

collecting the eoin' to have fallin' weather 'fore long," she observed,

oracularly "The wind has changed since dinner, and when the wind

whirls about on a sudden, we upon this ridge is the fust to find it

out I must see that theht with dry wood; I'd be loth to have you ketch cold

while you are here"