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"It was a misunderstanding. I wasn't to blame." The section boss turned to Dick. "I'll get a freight engine to run the car with the machine down to Ashton inside of an hour." "Very well," answered Dick. "And be careful that the biplane isn't damaged in unloading." "She ain't much but kindlin' wood now," and the section boss smiled a trifle.
I seed a little kindlin' cloud break away and go floatin' over your heads, and then it shaped itself into what us Romanies calls the Golden Hand. You know what the Golden Hand means when it comes over two sweethearts? You don't believe it? Ask Rhona Boswell! Here she comes a-singin' to herself. She's trying to get away from that devil of a Scollard as says she's bound to marry him.
Billy's face fell instantly. "If you don't take the kindlin', I'll have to give you back the tickets. Ma don't 'low us to take nothin' that way." "But I don't need the kindling; haven't any place to put it." "Ain't you got no home?" asked Billy, incredulously. "No," answered the man, shortly. The idea of any one, in any walk of life, not having use for kindling was a new one to Billy.
Then they came right along to look fur kindlin'. There wasn't no other bluff for half a mile but ours. They found us all three. Young Nat 'ad got 'is collar-bone broke. Them 'ustlers 'adn't lifted our 'plugs' so I jest came right in." "Have you seen these Mennonites?" asked the officer, turning sharply to the money-lender. "Not yet," was the heavy rejoinder. "But they are coming in."
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