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Show 192. Cautiously he got out of it, and holding on with one hand h© walked all the way around it. When he took hold of one arm and went to sit back down, it rocked forward and he backed off from it as though it were alive. He then carefully turned around and sat down in it again. Bill noticed his knuckles looked white from holding on so tightly, but he started rocking and a big knowing smile appeared on his face as the rocked back and forth. The chair was Little Bill's first toy, and he was so tickled with it that he couldn't stay in it, but kept getting out and then sitting down again; Then he began rocking wildly, swinging his body back as hard as he could and all at once it keeled over backwards and he went heels over head. He sat up rubbing his head but not crying; then he sat back down in it.' Lunch Mouth said, "He sure ain't no piker." Bill looked over at Sunny who was watching with a big smile on his rather flushed face-his attention entirely on Little Bill.' Bill thought, first time around me he's forgotten his girl since he read the QbRftrvftr. He'd heard Sunny tossing and turning last night in the lean-to. The sun was getting lower now and the snow glistened in its glare.* Suddenly it went behind the high western Sierra mountains and the wind turned chilly. Bill picked the baby up, and he turned around and yelled, threw himself back, and stretched his arms |