" "Why, what else is gone, Sally?" "Ther's six CANDLES gone - that's what. The rats could a got the candles, and I reckon they did; I wonder they don't walk off with the whole place, the way you're always going to stop their holes and don't do it; and if they warn't fools they'd sleep in your hair, Silas - YOU'D never find it out; but you can't lay the SPOON on the rats, and that I know.

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