Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 165
hard, what is it ? Haveyou and the pretty little girl at the farm had a quar-rel? Not exactly; but I—I have given her up. Ah ! how was that ? You see, one day she told me she wished Iwouldnt speak to her when there were other girlsthere, unless I had on my best clothes, for I was 15° THE BOY WHO… … SHE WISHED 1 WOULD N T SPEAK TO HERBEST CLOTHES ! UNLESS I HAD ON MY Given up farming, I said. Why, what areyou going to do? Well, Im going to try to be a gentleman, heanswered. Cant a farmer be a gentleman? I said, think-ing what foolishness I must have put into the boyshead, by my talk during…
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