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Up the Hill and Over

CHAPTER XII
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She glanced at the wrathy Bubble out of the corners of her eyes.

"I didn't think he'd be mean like that," she remarked craftily.
"Like what?
He isn't mean!" "To make you stay in all day." "He didn't.

Not him! He gave me fifty cents and told me to take a day off.

'Just run around with the medicine, Bubble,' says he, 'and then you can hike it.

I have a feeling in my bones,' he says, 'that nobody's going to die to-day.'" "Well, then--" "A man has a sense of duty for all that." "Well," rising with a dejected air, "if you're not coming, good-bye.


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