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DICK MEETS HIS FATHER.
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head a fancy for keeping bees (pleasantly disguised under the pretence of its being an economical wish to produce her own honey), lived at a watering-place fourteen miles off, and the business of transporting the hives thither would occupy the whole day, and to some extent annihilate the vacant time between this evening and the coming Sunday. The best spring-cart was washed throughout, the axles oiled, and the bees placed therein for the journey.

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