And where will we
fix fra Mary?"
"Oh, git out!" said Jimmy. "I ain't goin' to fool with that."
"Well, we best fix a place. Then we can tell her we fixed it, and
it's all ready."
"Sure!" cried Jimmy. "You are catchin' it from your neighbor. Till
her a place is all fixed and watin', and you couldn't drag her here
with a team of oxen. Till her you are ~going to fix it soon, and
she'll come to see if you've done it, if she has to be carried on
a stritcher."
So they selected a spot that they thought would be all right for
Mary, and not close enough to disturb the Bass and the Kingfisher,
rolled two logs, and fished a board that had been carried by a
freshet from the water and laid it across them, and decided that
would have to serve until they could do better.
Then they sat astride the board, Dannie drew out a coin, and they
tossed it to see which was heads and tails. Dannie won heads. Then
they tossed to see which bank was heads or tails, and the right,
which was on Rainbow side, came heads. So Jimmy was to use the
bridge. Then they went home, and began the night work. The first
thing Jimmy espied was the barrel containing the milk pail. He
fished out the pail, and while Dannie fed the stock, shoveled
manure, and milked, Jimmy pounded out the dents, closed the bullet
holes, emptied the bait into it, half filled it with mellow earth,
and went to Mary for some corn meal to sprinkle on the top to feed
the worms.
At four o'clock the next morning, Dannie was up feeding, milking,
scraping plows, and setting bolts.
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