THE COUNTRY BOY 



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with the shoemaker; I must have whittled 

 leather scraps for two or three years without 

 missing much time. Finally one day by mis- 

 take I cut into an upper that was to be made 



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into a shoe and it nearly broke up the shop; I 

 couldn't pay for it, and we didn't want to ask 

 Father to settle, so I joined the firm to get out 

 of it. 



