This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...but when he tried to speak, the mud--already drying upon his face--cracked and curled into a dozen wrinkles, making matters even worse than before. The two boys rolled over upon the grass in the ecstasy of their enjoyment. "Why, Squire Townsend's best porker ain't a bit more Btrikin' to look at!" cried Tim Wiggins. "I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...but when he tried to speak, the mud--already drying upon his face--cracked and curled into a dozen wrinkles, making matters even worse than before. The two boys rolled over upon the grass in the ecstasy of their enjoyment. "Why, Squire Townsend's best porker ain't a bit more Btrikin' to look at!" cried Tim Wiggins. "I say, Pete, lend us yer face for a crop o' oats," said Jem Crook. "Wouldn't need no ploughin'," said Tim Wiggins. Peter fell upon them, and pinched, and kicked, and cuffed, and bit; and the two mastered his hands and feet, and rubbed his face back and forth upon the turf, until there was some danger of getting rid of the mud at the cost of the skin. "Now, he looks like folks!" said Jem Crook. "How does yer do, Peter? Been out o' soundins so long, I 'd kinder got melancholy, and didn't know as 'twas you." "What was yer about up there, at yer books?" said Tim Wiggins, with a scowl. "Keadin'," said Peter, sulkily. "Nice work for mornin', ain't it 1" said Tim. "If I catch ye at it agin" "Why, I wouldn't wonder if 'twarn't the very one the white lady giv' him," said Jem, "and he's goin' to play good-boy, for a change! 'Tis kind o' slow down there to Limp's--when he ain't home. Lively, then, ain't it, Peter? Flogs yer round consid'able, don't he 1" "'Taint none o' yer business what he does, nor what I does, nor what nobody does," said Peter, comprehensively. "I was a readin' to Moll; and I 'll do it, too, if I 'm a mindter." "Why so he shall! in course!" said Jem Crook. "Does yer allers read so early, Pete 1 I say, I 'm a comin' round some mornin' to hear." "Help yer pernounce," said Tim Wiggi...
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