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MY PEOPLE
“Is there water in the close?”
“Well, well, not in the close, Nell fach, but at the bottom of the field under the house.”
“Mouth you now about the out-houses.”
“Enoch had a new roof put over the stable when he went there four years ago.”
“How much money has your father Deio got?”
”Now you've asked me a puzzle, Nell fach. I don’t know, for sure!”
“Is Parcdu his?”
“Indeed it is.”
“Is it mortgaged?”
“Not for a red penny, Nell Blaenffos.”
“How many brothers and sisters have you got?”
“Not one, Nell fach.”
“Come you back with me to the Drivers’ and mouth to old father.” Sam Blaenffos had already seen Job of the Stallion and had conversed with him,
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