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But after a time Jethro grew very tired of playing with a dilapidated shoe, a shiny bone, a grimy dish-mop and other erstwhile interesting things, and he thought it would be delightful to make friends with Nancy and play with her. But Nancy was still unapproachable. When Jethro capered up to her she arched her back and spat at him. Not being a thin-skinned puppy, he refused to consider this rebuff as final.,“Jiminy whiz! This is my very last week of boy; next week I’ll have to be a man,” he said gloomily.,The band struck up and, intoxicated with the rhythm of the music, Moses skated as he had never done before. At first an object of amusement to the city boys he became the centre of an admiring throng. His spirals and figure eight’s were such as to call forth envious remarks. Even Clarence Egerton Crump thawed and admitted to several school mates that Moses Wopp was a pretty solid pal, only a bit gawky in his get-up.,But his mother watched out the night.,“I c’d eat a rhindoceros,” he confided to Clarence.,It was a fine summer evening. The whole Wopp family was getting ready to go to a dance, to be held at a ranch some ten miles off. An array of clean clothing was laid out on the different beds and an odor of musk-scented soap pervaded the air.,Mrs. Wopp drew the green curtains together and turned to the smallest girl in the class.,“You bet it’s work! ’Specially when she gets hold of a cub like me.”,Ladies cross your lily-white hands,“You can send some one after us, a man—not you, not either of you,” he called back over his shoulder, and was soon out of sight.,“You keep still, Betsey! I’m going to watch!” he exclaimed, as if some one had spoken.,Gee! It was a scaly trick for a little girl, he thought; and felt sick. Would the plank bend too much? Slip? She was such a little thing—if only she could be a truly fairy for a minute!.