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"Got it!" cried Bob. And then, "Oh!" There was a splash. "Just kitched on the top o' my finger, and bounced off," whispered the boy excitedly. "O Bob, what have you done!" "Well, I couldn't help it. I ain't a howl. How could I see in the dark!" "Can't you see where it fell in!" "Why, ain't I a-trying. Don't be in such a fuss."
"You'll be worse for it some day." "Keeps out the cold and ager, mester," said the second man, thrusting the box back in his pocket. "Then you've been waiting at the Warren?" "Ay, mester. Me an' him waited till we see the fire, and thowt the house hed kitched, and then we come." "It was very good of you, my lads," said the squire warmly.
"It's because I know you can keep secrets that I ain't afraid to trust you with 'em," said he. "Bob an' I are workin' on the quiet at an idee I was kitched with a day or two ago. It's a bigger scheme than most of the ones I've tackled, an' it may not turn out to be anything at all; still, Bob has studied boats an' knows a heap about 'em, an' he believes somethin' can be made of it.
What marvel, therefore, that Celestina reverenced the very earth which he trod and cheerfully put up with the strings, the wires, the spools, the tacks, and the pulleys; that she shifted the meals about to suit his convenience; and that when she was awakened at midnight by a rhythmic hammering which portended that the inventor had once again "got kitched with a new idee" she smiled indulgently in the darkness and instead of cursing the echoes that disturbed her slumber whispered to herself Jan Eldridge's oft-repeated prediction that the day would come when Willie Spence would astonish the scoffers of Wilton and would make his mark.
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