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Chap. II. Grandmother and Grandson. 15

life, and I wish you could take after him. It 's a very great
thing is kerfleness. There's people as thinks that when
they Ve worn * their money upon a thing, it 's no use lookin*
after it, and mindin* it, because the money *s all worn and
gone, and so they pay no heed to their things when once
they 've got them. And what 's the consequence ? They find
that they have to be renewed, that new ones must be bought
when the old ones ought to have been quite good yet ; and
so they spend and spend, when they might spare and have
every thing just as decent, if they could only learn a little
kerfleness."

After this lecture, Mrs. Ogden slowly rose from her seat
and proceeded to put the decanters into a triangular cupboard
tliat occupied a corner of the room. In due course of time
the apples, the gingerbread, and the nuts alike disappeared
in its capacious recesses, and were hidden from little Jacob's
eyes by folding-doors of dark mahogany, polished till they
resembled mirrors, and reflected the window with its glimpse
of dull gray sky. After this Mrs. Ogden went into the
kitchen to look after some household affairs, and her grand-
son went to the stable to see Jerry, and to make the acquaint-
ance of some puppies which had recently come into the world,
but were as yet too blind to have formed any opinion of its
beauties.
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1 6 Wenderholme. part i.
CHAPTER III.
AT THE PARSONAGE.
