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The whistle shrilled up the narrow valley, echoing back and forth from the steep green hills that bounded it.,He saw the men stop, draw apart, and look around. They discovered no one, but delayed their quarrel and hurried in the direction of the sound, exchanging short angry speeches as they ran.,“Biff on the eye!” she cried.,Moses returned to the Crump home with a prodigious appetite.,“I like ‘Ladybird,’ but not ‘bully,’” the little girl returned shyly.,“Shan’t we defer the ceremonies till we can get Charley’s little sister and Jackson’s two weeks’ old brother?” Jimmy asked, disagreeably.,May Nell sat still and smiled modestly. Billy stared at her, feeling still more foolish over his own mistake.,The Wopp family had two domestic pets, a plump tortoise-shell cat called Nancy, and a black and white terrier named Jethro, after the father-in-law of Moses, the great law-giver.,CHAPTER XI GOOD-NIGHT IN THE FO’CASTLE,“Here’s to our mothers,,“Are you sure, my boy? I’ll go with you—”,“No matter, Billy. I think she was sent to us; and we shall find a way. Are the chickens fed?”.