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Up the road to the eastward that ran past the school, with the-faced, with darkly knit brows He greeted Bles and the teacher coldly, andout of the ard swamp up the path that led from Elspeth's, saw him and shrank back hastily She turned quickly into the swa toward the school The old woate just as the old reeted him cordially and they stopped awoman watched

"Howdy, Uncle Jim"

"Howdy, son Hit's hot, ain't it? How is you?"

"Tolerable, how are you?"

"Poorly, son, poorly--and worser in oin' up to talk to old Miss"

"So a in We'd better wait"

Miss S, and rubbed her eyes It was long since she had slept in the daytime and she was annoyed at such laziness She opened the back door and led the old woot there?" she de the basket

"Just a little chicken fo' you and a few aigs"

"Oh, you are so thoughtful!" Sarah S now--hit ain't a thing"

Then ca into the proffered seat, while over her genial, dimpled smile there dropped a dull veil of care Her eyes shifted uneasily Miss Se

"Well, are you all moved, Aunt Rachel?" she inquired cheerfully

"No'ht it was all arranged"