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Updated: May 12, 2025
And there the raft, no longer the awkward monster it was the day before, floated like a lily-pad, straining at the cable as lightly as a greyhound leaping against its leash. The neighbors were gathered to watch the departure old Jerry Budd, blacksmith and "yarb doctor," and his folks; the Cultons and Middletons, and even the Dillons little Tad and Whizzer and all.
Trees were felled, with axes and saws that had been aboard the WHIZZER, and bound together, in rude fashion, with strong trailing vines from the forest. A smaller raft, as a sort of ferry, was also made. This occupied them all that day, and part of the next. In the meanwhile, Tom continued to flash out his appeals for help, but no answers came.
He shot through the big gate, lifting his heels viciously at the Old Man as he passed, whirled around the stable and trotted haughtily past Slim into the corral of his own accord, quite as if he had meant to do so all along. "Did you ever!" exclaimed the Little Doctor, disgustedly, from her perch. "Whizzer, I'm ashamed of you!
But as the sayin' is: 'Man plans an' God displans, an' I guess it's so. Here yuh are, laid up fer the summer, Dell says the las' thing on earth, I guess, that yuh was lookin' fer. An' yuh rode buckin' bronks right along, too. I never looked fer Whizzer t' buck yuh off, I must say yuh got the name uh bein' sech a good rider, too.
"Goddlemighty!" said Joel, "how air we goin' to git them sheep back?" Up and up rose the bleating and baaing, for Beelzebub, like the prince of devils that he was, seemed bent on making all the mischief possible. "How AIR we goin' to git 'em back?" Chad nodded then, and Jack with an eager yelp made for the river Whizzer at his heels.
"Eight hundred pounds," announced one of the machinists. "A thousand would be better, but we'll try it," Murmured Tom. "Cast off!" The rope was loosened, and, increasing the speed of the engine, Tom signalled to the men to give a little momentum to the craft. She began running over the smooth ground. There was a cheer from the few spectators. Certainly the WHIZZER made good time on the earth.
Before going to bed, Chad said he would bring Jack into the house: "Somebody might pizen him," he explained, and when he came back, he startled the circle about the fire: "Whar's Whizzer?" he asked, sharply. "Who's seen Whizzer?" Then it developed that no one had seen the Dillon dog since the day before the sheep was found dead near a ravine at the foot of the mountain in a back pasture.
"You started this fight," said Tom. "I don't keer ef I did take him off," Daws answered, savagely. "Will you say 'nough fer him?" said Chad again, and again Tall Tom chuckled. The little brother clinched his fists and turned white with fear for Whizzer and fury for Chad, while Daws looked at the tall Turner, shook his head from side to side, like a balking steer, and dropped his eyes.
As they crossed the Hog's Back and climbed the steep grade just below her, she eyed him reproachfully and said again: "Whizzer, I'm ashamed of you!" It did certainly seem that Whizzer heard and felt the pricking of pride at the reproof. He made a feint at being frightened by a jack rabbit which sprang out from the shade of a rock and bounced down the hill like a rubber ball.
You're goin' to run a whizzer in on 'em playin' 'em for suckers. An' I'm your right-hand man stickin' with you until hell runs long on icebergs!" A desire to ride once more in the peaceful sunshine of the land she loved was one of the first indications that Barbara was recovering from the shock occasioned by her father's death.
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