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hter, the air there, or something, and he says he couldn't be at the bother of two establishments without a housekeeper in nary one of 'em. And I think he's right. I don't see how he could." Winthrop watched the quick mechanical way in which his mother's knife followed the paring round and round the potatoes, and he longed to say something. "But it is not my affair," he thought; "it is for Rufus. It is not _my_ business to speak." Nobody else spoke for a minute. "What makes him want to send his children here?" said Mrs. Landholm without looking up from her work. "Partly because he knows me, I suppose; and maybe he has heard of you. Partly because he knows this is just the finest country in the world, and the finest air, and he wants them to run over the hills and pick wild strawberries and drink country milk, and all that sort of thing. It's just the place for them, as I told him once, I remember." "You told him! --" "Yes. He was saying something about not knowing what to do with his girls last winter, and I remember I said to him that he had better send them to me; but I had no more idea of his taking it up, at the time, than I have now of going to Egypt." Mrs. Landholm did not speak. "You have somewhere you can put them, I suppose?" "There's nobody in the big bedroom." "Well, do you think you can get along with it? or will it give you too much trouble?" "I am afraid they would never be satisfied, Mr. Landholm, with the way we live." "Pho! I'll engage they will. Satisfied! they never saw such butter and such bread in their lives, I'll be bound, as you can give them. If they aren't satisfied it'll do 'em good." "But bread and butter isn't all, Mr. Landholm; what will they do with our dinners, without fresh meat?" "What will they do with them? Eat 'em, fast enough, only you have enough. I'll be bound their appetites will take care of the rest, after they have been running over the mountains all the morning. You've some chickens, hav'n't you? -- and I could get a lamb now and then from neighbour Upshur; and here's Winthrop can get you birds and fish any day in the year." "Winthrop will hardly have time." "Yes he will; and if he don't we can call in Anderese. He's a pretty good hunter." "I'm not a bad one," said Rufus. "And you have Karen to help you. _I_ think it will be a very fine thing, and be a good start maybe towards Rufus's going to College." Another pause, during wh
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