- CHAPTER VILL.

(o|(\ER time came, poor lady, and I got

a letter wrote to, the master to come ©

 

home; but long before he could get
the letter, the baby was born ; and to be sure
he did come as quickly as he could, and she
was asleep at the same time, and the doctor
SO charged us to keep her quiet, that I ran to
meet him and to hinder him from going in,
- because it might startle her, and she so weak ;
but my heart went down into my shoes, for
] ‘smelt the smell and saw the flush on his
cheek’ and the fire in his eye, that I knew
was never kindled by beer or wine; and my

_ heart died in my bosom, when I thought of
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