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while to kind o' lighten up that old lonesome place o' mine: I know that Freddie won't object."
"Oh, 'Liphalet, do go 'long: I scarcely know whether you air a man or a child, sometimes."
"There's One that says, 'Except you become as a little child'—"
"'Liphalet, will you go 'long home?"
"I 'spect I'd better be gittin' along.—Good-bye, Freddie; be a good boy, an' some day I'll take you up to my house an' let you ride old Bess around.—Good-bye, Miss Hester." And as he passed out to his buggy he whistled tenderly something that was whistled when he was a boy.
