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True Tilda

CHAPTER IX
5/23

You'll excuse me, missy, but business first an' pleasure afterwards.

We're stoppin' here for the day." "For the day ?" echoed Tilda, with a dismayed look astern.

"An' we've on'y come this far!" "Pretty good goin', _I_ should call it," Mr.Bossom assured her cheerfully.

"Six locks we've passed while you was asleep, not countin' the stop-lock.

But maybe you 're not used to travel by canal ?" "I thank the Lord, no; or I'd never 'ave put Mr.'Ucks up to it.
Why, I'd _walk_ it quicker, crutch an' all." "What'd you call a reas'nable price for eggs, now--at this time o' year ?" asked Mr.Bossom, abstractedly sucking the stump of a pencil and frowning at his notebook.


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