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"Theodosia Baxter, I'm disappointed! I thought you were a brave girl." As she stood in the moist darkness, a sound came to her too soft for a man-sound. It grew a very little more distinct. "Miss Theodosia sh! he's gettin' ready to go off. I want him to go off soon's I get him home I don't want to 'xcite him. I jus' came to tell you " "Evangeline! Have you got him there?" The softest of giggles.
"Heem, my deevil bar, sure enough," he exclaimed, and at the hated man-sound Black Bruin drew farther into his corner. That afternoon an ox-cart, bearing a mammoth crate made of two by four timbers, came creaking into the woods and was backed up to the pen-trap. For an hour or so there was a sound of hammering while a plank-covered gangway was being built from the pen-trap to the strong crate.
Isn't it queer," broke forth Evangeline suddenly, "how when you get to be old you never were bad when you were young? The badnesses have kind of kind of faded out. I bet there were badnesses!" And Miss Theodosia found herself nodding decisively. She, too, bet there were. A hilarious little crow suddenly sounded from without the window; it was accompanied by a deep man-sound of mirth.
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