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home to my own country. I went away one fine morning,
and I went swimming, and God helped me till I came home.
I went into the garden, for I knew there.was a place in the
garden where I could hide myself, for fear my wife should
see me. In the morning I saw her out walking, and the
child with her, held by the hand. I pushed out to see the

    
 

   
   
 

 
  

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child, and as he was looking about him everywhere, he saw
me and called out, ‘‘I see my shaggy papa. Oh!” said he :
“oh, my heart's love, my shaggy papa, come here till I see
you!”
I was afraid the woman would see me, as she was asking

the child where he saw me, and he said I was up in a tree;
and the more the child called me, the more I hid myself,