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But one luckless day, as Featherhead was lolling in his hole, up came two boys with the friskiest, wiriest Scotch terrier you ever saw. His eyes blazed like torches, and poor Featherhead's heart died within him as he heard the boys say, "Now we'll see if we can't catch the rascal that eats our grain." Featherhead tried to slink out at the hole he had gnawed to come in by, but found it stopped.
"Well, I'll go then," she assented, "if you will promise to look after me." "I'll see to that," responded Pete, delighted with his success. "I'll stand off any one, even the angel Gabriel himself, except one thing." "And what's that?" "It's love," solemnly answered the old man. "It's the cutest, wiriest thing a man kin run aginst.
He is the wiriest athlete I know extraordinary physical strength for his size and one of the cleverest rascals out as a politician. I am a neighbour of his in the country. His property joins mine. I knew his father a little, dried-up old chap of the old school very elegant manners and very obstinate worried to death by his wife oh, my goodness! such a woman!"
Then the old buckboard, carefully oiled and tightened for the occasion, was gotten out, a team of the fastest, wiriest mustangs the Box R possessed was attached, and Rankin and Baker upon the seat, Florence and Ben, well-mounted, trailing behind, the party sallied forth. In order to avoid fences they had agreed to go ten miles to the south before beginning operations.
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