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Updated: May 13, 2025
Then, as the rains grew heavier, water took to running down the pole that stood in the centre of the tent, and formed a pool in the middle of the floor, so that Thyrsis had to get the axe and cut a hole there. And, of course, there was no way to dry anything; the woods, which were low, were turned into a swamp, and one's shoes became caked with mud, and there was no keeping the tent-floor clean.
The thunder-cloud has made it seem dark see there; a line of pale yellow stretches along the horizon from west to north. That's evening not gone yet. Shall we go into the fresh air for a minute? She seemed to signify assent, and he stepped off the tent-floor upon the ground. She stepped off also.
The baby crawled about on the tent-floor and got into everybody's way, and crowed with delight at the novel surroundings; and later on his mother gave him his supper and put him to bed; and then she spread a feast of bread and butter, and fresh milk and eggs and a can of fruit, and they sat down to the first meal they had eaten together in many a long, long month.
To keep myself still at white heat, I showered blows on him. To my surprise, he fell back. "Wait wait," he protested in a small voice, "I I was just fooling." After Vinton left, my blood still pouring through my veins in a triumphant glow, I sat on the ground by the side of my tent-floor and composed a poem.... That afternoon Barton's office boy was sent to me, as an emissary of peace.
Still his gold was safe, for, apart from the danger of the attempt to rob the bully, it would have been impossible to discover the particular part of his tent-floor in which the hole was dug, and, as to venturing to touch his pillow while his shaggy head rested on it, no one was daring enough to contemplate such an act although there were men there capable of doing almost anything.
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