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Laddie

CHAPTER IX
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There were no people near us who were in trouble that we knew of, excepting Pryors.

Hard as father and mother worked, you'd have thought the Lord wouldn't have minded if they asked only once to get the money back, or if they forgot the neighbours, but they did neither one.
May said because they were big like that was why all of us loved them so.
I would almost freeze in the catalpa, but as I could see far in all directions there, I went back, and watched the roads, and when I remembered what Laddie had said, I kept an eye on the fields too.

At almost dusk, and frozen so stiff I could scarcely hang to the limb, I heard the bulldogs at Pryors' begin to rave.

They kept on steadily, and I thought Gypsies must be passing.

Then from the woods came a queer party that started across the cornfield toward the Big Meadow in front of the house, and I thought they were hunters.


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