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1  He pulled on his wet coat again and went back to the barn to feed the greys.
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2  As they drove away the sun sank behind the hill and the pine-boles turned from red to grey.
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3  A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle.
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4  He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves.
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5  "I hope Zeena ain't broken anything she sets store by," she called after him as he turned the greys toward home.
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6  On the farther side of the hemlock belt the open country rolled away before them grey and lonely under the stars.
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7  They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and grey under the stars.
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8  At the kitchen door Daniel Byrne sat in his sleigh behind a big-boned grey who pawed the snow and swung his long head restlessly from side to side.
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9  At first its weak flame made no impression on the shadows; then Zeena's face stood grimly out against the uncurtained pane, which had turned from grey to black.
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10  Her hair was as grey as her companion's, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples.
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11  A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
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12  On the way over to the wood-lot one of the greys slipped on a glare of ice and cut his knee; and when they got him up again Jotham had to go back to the barn for a strip of rag to bind the cut.
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