Chapter 10 - (VERSO)

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entire face. She wondered if this third failure would squelch Pa. But Pa was not to be squelched.

“Well, anyway,” he said, brightening up under the influence of a sudden saving inspiration, “I’ll have to go up to get the sorrel mare shod. So, if you’ve any little errands you want done at the store, Ma, just make a memo of them while I hitch up.”

The matter of shoeing the sorrel mare was beyond Ma’s province, although she had her own suspicions about the sorrel mare’s need of shoes.

“Why can’t you give up beating