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“Yes; but I’m afraid my papa’s dead, he’s been gone so long.” How she hated that word “kid.”,“They smell like the sunbeams was sprinklin’ them with scent,” she declared as she and Moses brought the last basketful into the house. Mrs. Wopp’s nightgown of ample proportions was left out a little longer being still somewhat damp.,Moses was whistling a dismal discordant air in the backyard when the voice of his mother smote his ears.,“It was shore a wonder, with the band playin’ an’ all. I never heard sich moosic, not sence the circus.”,Dim religious lights from stained glass windows shone through the church and falling on the boy chilled him to the marrow.,Not far behind the democrat came a light buggy drawn by a team of greys. Howard Eliot and Nell Gordon sat therein.,CHAPTER V THE FAIR ELLEN,“What is Betty like?”,Directly the invalid’s querulous demand for the rancher was made, Moses started off to fetch him.,But Mrs. Bennett, fleet though speechless, was at the water’s edge by the time Jimmy had risen with May Nell quite safe. She spluttered and choked a little; but Jimmy had been so quick there was not even a red spot on her flesh to show the touch of fire.,“Wot’s the use of livin’ if Betty grows them there wings they talk of?” he demanded of the fowl as they scurried from his path.,Nell confessed she had heard of it..