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Show ^5. enjoyed the activity of jumping out and pushing. He noticed a big old stump, maybe five feet tall, xrhere there xras a hive of honey bees every summer. The snoxr xras so deep it had only an inch or so shoxring about it. Little Bill yelled every time they all jumped out as the xragon slowed either for a drift or a hill. When they got stuck on the last pull into Blue Burg, Olaf jumped out and tromped the snoxr doxm in front of the wheels and then counted. It took three pushes to get the xiagon rolling again, and Little Bill got so he'd yell right along xrith Olaf, keeping the rhythm and raising his voice just right on the "push!" Sunny shouted. "Little Bill can count before he can talk." At Jake's plaeejbhere xjas xrorry in the air. Bill's bunch vas there early for the celebration and as other men came in their first talk, Bill noticed, xras always about food instead of gold; how the deer had gone to the desert earlier this year and hoxr many of the miners xrere loxr on flour already and had come in to buy. Lunch Mouth came over to the table to see Little Bill, as he always did, but looked so hungrily at the biscuit Little Bill was munching on that Bill held out the canvas xrith the biscuits in it to him. He took txro, looking rather |
