Our young folks [serial] . OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated MagazineFOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Vol. VIII. MAY, 1872. No. work, if he can A CHANCE FOR XIV. SQUIRE PETERNOT AT HOME. FTER dismissing the Huswick boys, SquirePeternot carried his bag of coin into the roomwhich served him as an office, where he hadscarcely time to place it in a corner beside abureau, when there came a dull thump at thekitchen door. He knew Mrs. Peternots sig-nal, knocking with the soft under-part of herfeeble fist, and went to let her was a thin, wrinkled woman, dressed in black,with an expression
Our young folks [serial] . OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated MagazineFOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Vol. VIII. MAY, 1872. No. work, if he can A CHANCE FOR XIV. SQUIRE PETERNOT AT HOME. FTER dismissing the Huswick boys, SquirePeternot carried his bag of coin into the roomwhich served him as an office, where he hadscarcely time to place it in a corner beside abureau, when there came a dull thump at thekitchen door. He knew Mrs. Peternots sig-nal, knocking with the soft under-part of herfeeble fist, and went to let her was a thin, wrinkled woman, dressed in black,with an expression of countenance almost as sternand sour as that of the grim old squire himself. Huh ! said she, scowling as she entered, howhappens it ye haint got the fire agoin an the tatersbilin? I ve had somethin else to think on. WheresByron ? replied her husband, shortly. Gone to the barn with the hoss, I spose. Buthe wont unharness, —ketch him ! I did nt expect he would, with his Sunday cloeson. Sunday cloes, or any cloes on, he dont tech his fingers to anything that 11 sile em, or that looks like it, muttered good Mrs
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