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"This child I hear about, the child you've been giving our stuff to--the
child that weighs two stone."
Mrs. Skinner's hands worked, and she dropped the onions. "Reely, Sir,"
she protested, "I don't hardly know, Sir, what you mean. My daughter,
Sir, Mrs. Caddles, 'as a baby, Sir." And she made an agitated curtsey
and tried to look innocently inquiring by tilting her nose to one side.
"You'd better let me see that baby, Mrs. Skinner," said Redwood.
Mrs. Skinner unmasked an eye at him as she led the way towards the barn.
Of course, Sir, there may 'ave been a little, in a little can of
"
Nicey I give his father to bring over from the farm, or a little perhaps
what I happened to bring about with me, so to speak. Me packing in a
hurry and all ..."
"
Um!" said Redwood, after he had cluckered to the infant for a space.
Oom!"
"
He told Mrs. Caddles the baby was a very fine child indeed, a thing
that was getting well home to her intelligence--and he ignored her
altogether after that. Presently she left the barn--through sheer
insignificance.
"Now you've started him, you'll have to keep on with him, you know," he
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