Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 532
briskly. Sure, miss. Thatsit, miss. Beverly hesitated, watching his departingback. Then she halted him. Bates! Bates!What are you going to do first? The little man had no hesitations. Plowit up, he said, an grade it nice an lay out ing. One morning he started to dig out thecrocuses—to tidy the… … WHAT WILL YOU HAVE DONE, MISS? I M BATES, MISS some proper beds. I can get that fur with-out no directions from nobody. No! said Beverly. You must nt dothat. It would spoil it. Bates bristled. I ve laid out gardensan took care of em for forty year, miss. Beverly eyed him. He meant it. Hewould do…
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