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Show 20 thought she had found a flaw in Samuel's story. "Tha, knaws ' ow 't is with Kings and Queens--one day yer in favor, and the next " He made a gesture like the slitting of a throat. It was too reasonable an answer for Barbara. She had nothing more to add-for the moment. "Did they really do all that to Sir Walter Raleigh?" asked Joseph with a hint of skepticism in his voice. "Thee knaws, cut out all his guts while he was alive?" Six year old Benjamen was now fascinated with the story. "Well...King James just stuck 'im in the Bloody Tower for a few years. Later ee was released and eventually ee was beheaded." "Beheaded! So! Ya just made up the whole gory story 'bout 'is 'eart bein cut out while ee was alive!" Barbara squinted her eyes in accusation. "I did not! That was the sentence pronounced upon 'im! Here! Read it yerself!" Samuel thrust the book in Barbara's face. "She can't read!" Joseph knew how to stir Barbara's anger. He felt fully justified in his provocation. "Aye, tha knoas Ah can." She took the book, read |