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Then , little Miss Byerly , I will try to throw off its guard thy saucy perversity ; for surely these two women understand each other . '' After breakfast he followed Podge Byerly down Queen Street and through Beach , and came up with her as she went out of Kensington to the Delaware water-front about the old Northern Liberties district . Duff bowed with a little of diffidence amid all his gravity , and sneezed as if to hide it : `` Jericho ! -- Miss Podge , see the time -- eight o'clock , and an hour before school . Let us go look at the river . '' They walked out on the wharf , and were wholly concealed from shore by piles of cord-wood and staves . `` I like to get off here , away from listeners , where I need not be bellowed at and tire out well-meaning lungs .