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“But it is a terrible thing. Carlstrom says that I’ve ruined Bob riding him so hard and that Bob must be”— For that was just the way the trouble began. He had been walking on his tallest stilts the whole afternoon—the stilts that were exactly, to the dot, one yard fifteen inches and a half tall—and then had sat himself on the fence along the back alley. He was facing the yard, with his back toward the alley, and that disgusting Olsen boy came past and gave him a dig in the back with that sharp stick. Just think of it! Wouldn’t anybody say it was unbearable? “Why?” flashed Bob, quick to take advantage of Jerry’s loosened lips..
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“I did,” said Mr. Whitney, “but as the dam will furnish enough water to irrigate one hundred and eighty thousand acres, you see that brings the cost down to about forty dollars an acre, which won’t be much once it is all under cultivation. This charge is like a mortgage—the Government is secured by the land itself. But it won’t be long now—two or three years at the outside—before the dam is finished and the land is ready to be cultivated. Ted Adams, my predecessor here, finished up a diversion dam below at Leesburg which has been a help.”I tried logging in using my phone number and I
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“Why, because it says here he is a credit to the school, and he isn’t that—not now.”
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Mrs. Taylor had prepared what seemed to Bob an especially fine supper, considering that they were miles away from civilization. During a lull in the conversation he mentioned it. She was much pleased. He revolved the means which might effect his purpose—he saw but one—this was the death of the marchioness. There! Any one could see by that how horrid she was—asking if he wanted anything in particular! “It is what they call me,” replied Johnny, rather soberly..
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