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thought I told you to bring Homer back with you.” As Grandfather drove through, he said, “Yes, but since he went to town last week he is changed, he ain’t the same fellow that used to hunt eggs for you; in fact, he didn’t want to come; he’s got in with the boys there,
and he’s forgotten us; in fact, I hardly knew him.” By this time Grandpa had begun to unhitch the horse and he had overdone it; Grandmother had put her apron over her eyes and her shoulders began to shake, when I dove out of the rosebushes, so it scared the horse, that I forgot wasn’t in on the job, and instead
