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countries you and I mustn't see, mother?"
"
"
"
She's a lady," said Mrs. Caddles.
Oh," said young Caddles, and meditated profoundly.
If there wasn't gentlefolks to make work for us to do," said Mrs.
Caddles, "how should we poor people get a living?"
This had to be digested.
"Mother," he tried again; "if there wasn't any gentlefolks, wouldn't
things belong to people like me and you, and if they did--"
"
Lord sakes and drat the Boy!" Mrs. Caddles would say--she had with
the help of a good memory become quite a florid and vigorous
individuality since Mrs. Skinner died. "Since your poor dear grandma was
took, there's no abiding you. Don't you arst no questions and you won't
be told no lies. If once I was to start out answerin' you serious, y'r
father 'd 'ave to go' and arst some one else for 'is supper--let alone
finishing the washin'."
"All right, mother," he would say, after a wondering stare at her. "I
didn't mean to worry."
And he would go on thinking.
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