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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 8
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And then H.O.said Dicky had hurt him, and he was a beastly bully, and he cried.

We thought all this had been made up, and were sorry to see it threaten to break out again.

So Oswald said-- 'Oh, bother the Baby! Come along, do!' And the others came.
We were going to the miller's with a message about some flour that hadn't come, and about a sack of sharps for the pigs.
After you go down the lane you come to a clover-field, and then a cornfield, and then another lane, and then it is the mill.

It is a jolly fine mill: in fact it is two--water and wind ones--one of each kind--with a house and farm buildings as well.

I never saw a mill like it, and I don't believe you have either.
If we had been in a story-book the miller's wife would have taken us into the neat sanded kitchen where the old oak settle was black with time and rubbing, and dusted chairs for us--old brown Windsor chairs--and given us each a glass of sweet-scented cowslip wine and a thick slice of rich home-made cake.


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