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for hiven's sake don't mintion it to a living body; shure 

 they'd boycott me, every mother's son, for asking less 

 than two shillings a bhurd!" 



Knowing Andy to be a pretty reliable fellow in 

 bargains of this kind, after some little talk Aunty 



"AND ERECTED A MOUND TO HIS MEMORY" 







consented to take the birds, and Andy went away 

 happy with instructions to kill, draw and deliver the 

 geese to the tenants and call up at the big house a 

 week later for his money. 



It was about two weeks afterward that one of the 

 tenants, Mrs. McCarty, called to see Aunty on some af- 

 fair of trifling import and Aunty casually asked her 



