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Sorry I gave anybody you love the measles . '' The market-woman looked at the child half-seeing , half-comforted by this sympathy , till the last words , apparently just penetrating to her consciousness , she rudely shook off the little hand with a look of bitter hatred . Then she went back into the house , and for the rest of that day the boy and girl were left to themselves . At noon , which he told by the sun , Jim made a little fire in one corner of the field and roasted some potatoes under it . Then he fixed a crotched stick above the blaze , hung on a tin pail and boiled some eggs ; and these with some bread made their dinner . Their supper was the same , and both had appetites to give the food a relish . At dusk Miranda came out , ordered Dorothy into the harness room and to bed , and this time she closed the door upon her , turning the wooden button which fastened it upon the outside .