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all pieces at each descent. But his heart was not in the work. He hit whatever stone chanced to be nearest. There was no cunning selection i

-head and there was no justice anywhere. Justice! he raised his eyebrows with the horrid stare of a man who searches for apparitions; he lowered them again to the bored blink of one who will not believe in apparitions even though he see them-there was not even fairness! Perhaps (and his bearing was mildly tolerant), perhaps some people believed there was fai

"has very few travellers, and it

-place," sai

tly for a f

way of being

ve not got what you want?" and he

you want?

," said he, "

round in front of h

g, did you ever meet a content

erday, three hills away from her

wasn't a

he said he had enough

er what

-He said that he had a wife, a s

is son was deaf, his apple-tree was

e a lot to sat

ey were, gave him no trouble attending on them, a

e about was a joker; maybe you are

son should want, for I am a young man, and e

ad, and he remained so, pursing and relaxing his lip

oes he signify more than a goat or a badger? We live by what folk think o

eak well of y

," said he, "and the wa

hem say a good wo

why the people sp

er friends or enemies, and it's likely enough that he'll have the last unless he has a meek spirit. And it's the same way with a man that's married, or a man that has a brother. For the neighbours will spy on you from dawn to

th his hammer eased on his knee, and the

mself be spied on or not, he'll be talked about, and in any case he'll be made out to be a queer man; and if he lets his wife rule him he'll be scorned and laughed at, and if he doesn't let her rule him he'l

neighbours, in

ll them

you for a thing you wanted you

ould

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e to look at, but I fancy the other w

you sa

't do that if their wives were hard to live with, for nobody could stand a bad comrade. A good wife, a g

a ditch for your

up his l

n you but yourself. If your mind was in a glass case instead of in a head it would be diffe

said he shortly, "ar

e to some other husband, and your brother might

eyes and looked a

," said he, and he raised his hammer again

looked at me again I turned to my own path intending to stri