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The Shoulders of Atlas

CHAPTER XVII
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I can get Billy Hudson to come.

He can sleep in the chamber over the kitchen.

I spoke to his mother about it, and she's tickled to pieces.

She says he's real handy with horses, and he'll come for fifteen dollars a month and his board.

Rose is going to have everything she wants." "Does she want a horse and carriage ?" "I shouldn't think of it if I didn't s'pose she did." "What made me ask," said Henry, "was, I'd never heard her speak of it, and I knew she had money enough for anything if she did want it." "Are you grudging my spending money her own aunt left on her ?" Henry looked reproachfully at his wife.


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