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"Here comes Miss Hobbs, mamma, rolling along with the clothes-basket."
Wednesday morning had arrived, and Kirke was upon the side porch helping his mother strap her grip-sack. Miss Hobbs was bringing home some starched clothes too fine to be laundered by Sing High, the "wash-man; " and beside her walked her roly-poly niece and nephew, Essie and Harry.