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Up against the slope a squat 'dobe chapel sat, while just beyond reach of the tide was a funny little pocket-size plaza, boasting a decrepit fountain and an iron fence eaten by the salt. Backing it all was a marvellous verdure, tipped up on edge, or so it seemed, and cleared in spots for pineapples.
I reckon I'll take along some of the new income tax receipts, and the recipe for making clover honey out of clabber and apple peelings; and the order blanks for the McGuffey's readers, which afterwards turn out to be McCormick's reapers; and the pearl necklace found on the train; and a pocket-size goldbrick; and a "'That'll be enough, says Andy. 'Any one of the lot ought to land on Ezra.
Ken Holt would help, if we could get the picture to him." Ken Holt, the young newsman whose adventures were favorite reading for Rick and Scotty, had once asked Spindrift for help, and Rick had given him a set of pocket-size radio transceivers of the kind known as "The Megabuck Network." "Sandy Allen is a photographer," Scotty pointed out. "He might know these people."
They were not particularly good eating, but they were meat and acceptable. The three, man and wolverines, made their way up the stream to the valley wall and through a feeder ravine into the larger space beyond. There, where the stream was born at the foot of a falls, they made their first camp. Judging that the morning haze would veil any smoke, Shann built a pocket-size fire.
As this was pulled in or paid out the balloon scraped by the window, and a pocket-size cigar clipper, tied beneath at the end of a six-inch string, tinkled and scratched on the iron bars. Pete lit his lamp; the little balloon at once became stationary. "This," said Pete, grinning hugely, "is the doings of that Selden kid. She is certainly one fine small person!"
He took the broncho's velvety nose in his hands and gave him a rough little shake. Then he patted him smartly on the neck. "For a pocket-size river," he said as he looked at the flood, "this is certainly the infant prodigy. Well, let's try it again." Had the plunge been straight to sudden death that broncho would have risked it unswervingly at the urging of his master.
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