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“Oh, oh! It ran—across my—foot!” she gasped, and fell over.,“Billy! You’re freezing!” She sprang up and turned on the light.,“Wharfmaster, ahoy!” Billy hailed, as they came near the water’s edge. “Is all ship-shape?”,“This stove is not drawin’ any too good, an’ what with these pipes an’ the parlor pipes not actin’ christian-like my eyes run warter orl day long. Ebenezer Wopp, I sees a job ahead fer you. My patience is wore out an’ this very day you’ll git at the pipes and git the soot cleaned out.”,“Betty, play us a toon,” requested Mr. Wopp who was very fond of music.,Now in the silence and fragrance his tightened springs began to relax. Presently he found himself in a dream of possibilities of the island,—Ellen’s Isle, he always called it; of what might be done with the smooth places in the river, the hills, Sunol Creek not far away, boiling and tumbling in boisterous beauty; of hidden nooks, piled boulders, and tiny meadows, vine-enclosed and flower-fragrant.,Thus adjured, Howard began, while Mrs. Wopp leaned back in her chair rocking vigorously.,“Bully for you, Ladybird. I’ve got a backer you see, sister.”,Nell’s answer was somehow strangely muffled.,Billy hurried away, and arrived at his home before the hack, bread and cream safe in spite of threatened dangers.,“‘Mosey’? Does that mean ‘little Moses’?”,Acting on this timely suggestion, Mrs. Wopp deposited the mischievous youths on small chairs, one on each side of her table, directly under her watchful eye. Cracking nuts seemed to have been the special proposed form of amusement for the afternoon. By the end of five minutes the substitute teacher had set several large noisy paper bags on the window ledge..