`` Got your sixteen dollars , I suppose ? It was worth four times that . Old Tom cheated you . You were foolish not to have gone to Green when you had the chance . '' `` I 'd promised Mr. Fillmore to finish with his pasture , sir ! '' `` Humph ! Well , what are you going to do now ? '' `` I do n't know . Harvest will be on next week . I may get in somewhere as an extra hand for a spell . '' `` Ellis , '' said his uncle abruptly , after a moment 's silence , `` I 'm going to discharge my man . He 's no earthly good . Will you take his place ? I 'll give you fifteen dollars a month and found . '' Ellis stared at Timothy Robinson . `` I thought you told me that you had no place for my father 's son , '' he said slowly . `` I 've changed my mind . I 've seen how you went at that elderberry job . Great snakes , there could n't be a better test for anybody than rooting out them things . I know you can work .
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