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The hills and fields were dry and brown and warm, ready to break into bud and blossom; the harbor was laughter-shaken again; the long harbor road was like a gleaming red ribbon; down on the dunes a crowd of boys, who were out smelt fishing, were burning the thick, dry sandhill grass of the preceding summer.
"Johnson," called the laughter-shaken voice of Bobby through the window, "I'm ashamed of you!" Mr. Johnson looked up happily from his task of wiping away a little trickle of blood from his already swollen nose. "Did you see me do it?" he demanded, thrilling with pride. "Mr. Burnit, I I never had so much fun in my life. Never, never!
It was clear and slightly frosty; the sun had declined behind a birch on a distant hill and it seemed a tree with a blazing heart of fire. The great golden willow at the lane gate was laughter-shaken in the wind of evening. Even amid all the changes of our shifting world we could not be hopelessly low-spirited except Sara Ray, who was often so, and Peter, who was rarely so.
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