Then Jimmy's fist unclenched, and his arms dropped. Dannie stepped
back, trying to breathe lightly, and it was between Jimmy and the
Thread Man.
"I am sorry," said Jimmy. "I carried my objictions to your wardrobe
too far. If you'll let me, I'll clean you up. If you'll take it,
I'll raise you the price of a new coat, but I'll be domn if I'll
hilp put such a man as you are into another of the fiminine ginder."
The Thread Man laughed, and shook Jimmy's hand; and then Jimmy
proved why every one liked him by turning to Dannie and taking his hand.
"Thank you, Dannie," he said. "You sure hilped me to mesilf that time.
If I'd hit him, I couldn't have hild up me head in the morning."
Chapter IV
WHEN THE KINGFISHER AND THE BLACK BASS CAME HOME
CRIMMINY, but you are slow." Jimmy made the statement, not as one
voices a newly discovered fact, but as one iterates a time-worn
truism. He sat on a girder of the Limberlost bridge, and scraped
the black muck from his boots in a little heap. Then he twisted a
stick into the top of his rat sack, preparatory to his walk home.
The ice had broken on the river, and now the partners had to
separate at the bridge, each following his own line of traps to the
last one, and return to the bridge so that Jimmy could cross to
reach home. Jimmy was always waiting, after the river opened, and
it was a remarkable fact to him that as soon as the ice was gone
his luck failed him.
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