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«6s What have you against it?’ he said,
as if he did not exactly like my crossing 3
him. | |

+‘ ¢T don’t like to leave the place where
‘we are doing well, to go to a strange land; s
said I. |

‘¢¢ Nonsense about that,’ said he. « Bill
Jones is going, and: he says he don’t doubt
that he shall make his fortune.’ |

‘s« Bill Jones is an idle fellow,’ said I,
‘and I doubt whether he would be any
petter off there than hére. But a man like
you, that has a mind and a will to work,
van do well enough in England.’

“¢¢ You are a baby, Mary,’ said he, ‘ and
cannot bear the thoughts of leaving home.
All that was well enough when the old folks -
were alive, but now you have nothing really

to tie you here, and you should consider the —