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CHAPTER II A SHOWER OF FISH,“I don’t reckon it would be as bad as that,” answered Whitney. “When Uncle Sam once starts something, he is pretty likely to carry it through. But we’d have a rough time of it all right. If I could only find out who’s behind ’em—they are not capable of stirring it up amongst themselves—I’d be able to nip the trouble before it got started. If they do strike and we are delayed, the Water Users Association will start on the rampage again.”,It was almost dark when he reached the little log sugar-shanty which housed his pets. He had hidden a lantern in a hollow log against such night visits as this and he paused to draw it out and light it before proceeding to the menagerie. As he rounded the shanty, whistling softly, and anticipating how glad Spotba, Moper, the owl, and all the other wild inmates would be to see him, he paused suddenly, and the whistle died on his lips. Somebody had been snooping about his menagerie! The prop had been taken from the door.,"Mr. Hinter, where did that stuff on them wagons come from?",All the young men thought this was funny; they laughed a good deal at Scarface as he was walking away.,“‘Place there the boy,’ the tyrant said,Jeremias wagged his head. “I tell you, there’s something to a boy that has the head to plan like that.”,"I don't know, major. He made no remark.",“Anyhow, Mar, that fust punkin pie Par got was a howlin’ success.”,As to Jack and Violet, they have grown of late into a sort of moral puzzle that nobody can solve. For months they have been gazing at and talking to each other, have apparently seen nothing but each other, no matter how many others may be present; and yet it is evident that no understanding exists between them, and that no formal engagement has been arrived at.,"He won't go into the stable to-night," says Mona, comfortably.,"'Tis a very old-fashioned term, madam," said General Groves, "current in my time, but I question if much understood in this.".