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... called good . A noticeable paucity of fences , and those which existed generously dilapidated , with untrustworthy gates and breached stiles , gave a haphazard com- munistic look to the division of fields and farms which did not show ...
... called good . A noticeable paucity of fences , and those which existed generously dilapidated , with untrustworthy gates and breached stiles , gave a haphazard com- munistic look to the division of fields and farms which did not show ...
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... , as she was generally called , Mother Jose , in whose hands lay virtually the whole of the inland trade of Barsands . Left a widow with five sons thirty years ago , she had made a good fight in her day , and she was now THE OLD HOME . 5.
... , as she was generally called , Mother Jose , in whose hands lay virtually the whole of the inland trade of Barsands . Left a widow with five sons thirty years ago , she had made a good fight in her day , and she was now THE OLD HOME . 5.
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... called the shaky old van , omnibus - rigged . It was a powerful combination ; and Mother Jose , a mighty woman of sixty - three , standing five feet eight " in her stocking feet , " and as free with her fists as she was close with her ...
... called the shaky old van , omnibus - rigged . It was a powerful combination ; and Mother Jose , a mighty woman of sixty - three , standing five feet eight " in her stocking feet , " and as free with her fists as she was close with her ...
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... not like the " old maids , " as he called them ; sometimes " old cats , " as a variation ; and they did not like him . They thought he should have married Miss Matilda fifteen years ago , and that he had 10 PATRICIA KEMBALL .
... not like the " old maids , " as he called them ; sometimes " old cats , " as a variation ; and they did not like him . They thought he should have married Miss Matilda fifteen years ago , and that he had 10 PATRICIA KEMBALL .
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... shameful ; and he would live to repent it . And they said it so often that at last the Captain himself caught the echo , and became doubtful of the wisdom of his ways . Then he would send Pat , as he called her , 12 PATRICIA KEMBALL .
... shameful ; and he would live to repent it . And they said it so often that at last the Captain himself caught the echo , and became doubtful of the wisdom of his ways . Then he would send Pat , as he called her , 12 PATRICIA KEMBALL .
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