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`` It was a long job , hour after hour , for I could n't hurry -- that little looking load was too heavy for that . And so I went on , and eight o'clock come , and nine , and ten , and you did n't overtake me , and then it got to be twelve o'clock ; and at last , reg ` lar fagged out , me and hoss , we got to the yard just as it was striking four , and getting to be day . `` I put the hoss up , and saw Juno go into her kennel , but I was too tired to chain her , and I lay down in the loft on some hay and went off to sleep . `` I did n't seem to have been asleep above ten minutes , but it was eight o'clock when Old Brownsmith 's brother stirs me up with his foot , and I sat up and stared at him . '' ` Where 's young Grant and the boy ? ' he says . '' ` What !