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Kelly owned the feed-store back of which the gang had loafed for years, and though himself a respectable businessman his name had been attached to the pack of hoodlums who held forth at his back door as the easiest means of locating and identifying its motley members.
Meanwhile Beaudry had to see the blacksmith, the feed-store manager, the station agent, and several others. This kept him so busy that he reached the Station only just in time to meet the incoming train. He introduced himself to the buyer, captured his suitcase, and turned to lead the way to the rig. Meldrum lurched forward to intercept him. "Shus' a moment." Roy went white.
The question of labor involved in transporting the pail, empty, to the saloon across the street, and returning it, full, to the alley back of the feed-store was solved by the presence of admiring and envious little boys of the neighborhood who hung, wide-eyed and thrilled, about these heroes of their childish lives.
That night it snowed again, and Sam and Philip Philip always assisted at cleaning the walks had their work to do over again. "Sleigh bells!" exclaimed Bobby, as the children were in the hall putting on their things for the walk to school. "Some one's calling." He ran to look out of the dining-room window. "Mother, it's the feed-store man," he shouted. "He's got a sleigh. Can we go?"
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