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Laddie

CHAPTER VII
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Then we took some of everything that wasn't too runny.

Just then the silence broke in the front part of the house, and we scooted from the back door, closing it behind us, ran to the wood house and climbed the ladder to the loft over the front part.
There we were safe as could be, we could see to the road, hear almost everything said in the kitchen, and "eat our bites in peace," like Peter Justice told the Presiding Elder at the church trial that he wanted his wife to, the time he slapped her.

Before very long, they began calling us, and called, and called.

We hadn't an idea what they wanted, so we ate away.

We heard them first while I was holding over a back to let Leon taste kidney, and it made him blink when he got it good.
"Well my soul!" he said.


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