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"ARE you all ready?" called Danny to Bert, looking over at the homemade bob, and there was something like contempt in his tone. "All ready," answered Bert. "I'll start as soon as you give the word." "We ought to have someone to shove us off," suggested Danny. "It won't be fair if one or the other gets a headstart." "Hi! He's afraid already!" cried Charley Mason. "He knows we're going to beat!"
Shouting mightily and wrathfully, after him came Buck Thornton. But Broderick had the few yards' headstart and, for the moment his destiny was with him. Thornton saw only a thicket of willows wildly disturbed as Broderick went threshing through them and knew that for the present at least Broderick was beyond pursuit. Swinging about angrily he rode back to join Comstock.
A little streak of fur, with tail flying behind like a long pretty hat brush, galloped across the Apgar field, then the very field where Marmaduke sat, perched on the fence. The dogs were right after Reddy, running hard, too, but they were two fields farther back. Reddy, you see, had fooled them in that wood, and he had gotten a good headstart. My, how Reddy was running!
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