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Show 27 in their voices. But he wasn't sure he was as smart as Samuel. Maybe if he read more books, he would be as smart. He liked to read books. Samuel was his friend, his very best friend, except when he wasn't. Samuel didn't always need a friend. Maybe next year when he would be nine like Samuel he wouldn't always need a friend either. Mother was his friend. But she was everybody's friend all of the time. When you're everybody's friend, it seems you don't have much time just for one. Mother smiled at Joseph. Because she didn't want a whole treatise as to Samuel's story, she re-directed the boys. "Lads. » Thee'11 wash up." It was almost supper time. Sir Walter Raleigh could be discussed later. When the boys left, Barbara entered the room and spoke her mind. "I doan't. think father should be after Hyrum to use his press to print a letter that's agen the law!" There was a distinct agitation in her voice. Hannah sighed. It was not the first opposition she had encountered from Barbara. "Thee father's more concerned about the laws of God than the laws o t' King," reminded Hannah. Barbara's rising indignation was apparent, "I thought Hyrum bought a press because he wants to print |