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Show 4~0 all .orts 0 ' wild thing:, nnt1 by-n11d-hy you tl1ink to your elf~ . pn. ·. n I " \\a. ,.., 1)(} r qll(1 W'""\S 'twny Ul> th ·r ~ , antl illC door ain't \l • , • , ( • • • • • l oe I~ <1 an< 1 J\, "()ll •• •S lH' •~ topr) d, look1ug knH1 of \VOltdPnnug an<l then he t nnle<l h r herv1 a ronnel low, and when her ·py lit 011 Jnr- l got np an<1 took a wn1k. ~ny:-: 1 to 1nyself, [ can <'xpl<tin h<·tLer hcnv \V~' conH· to not b<' in thni roOln tbi:-: 1norni11g, if I go out to one s1de ancl slndy over jt a 1 itt 1<·. So T <lone' jt. Bnt I dasn't go fnr, or :-;lte'd a . 'nt for lll<'. Antl wh 'll it \vas lai<' in i.h clny, i.he pPople all weni, and ill('n I cmne in and told her t h noise an<l shooting \vnl'-rd 11p Ill<' :tnd " jcl,'' mHl t h0 cl or \va: 1 cke<l, and we wanted to :-;(•e t h , fnn, . o we \V<'ni, <lown t hr lightning-r0d, and both of uR got hurL a little, and we di<ln't n v r w:nlt to try that 110 1nore. And then I went on ancl told l1er all wltat I told Uncle f4ilas bcfor ; and then h .-aid she'd forgiYe us, and Jnnyh<' it wns all rigid enough nnyw:.ly, nn(l abouL what. a body 11~ight <>xp et of boy. , for all boy was a prci ty hanunscaruln lot,~~~ fur a. Rlle could .·e ; and so, as long a:-: no harm hadn't emne of it, . h \ jndg '<1 :h bet t ('r put jn her tinH' being arateful \VC wns alive and well and :he had us still, :irad of fretting over what was past and done. Ho then . ltP ki s.'c<l me, ;nul patted Jnc on the head, and clropped into a kind of a brown st ucly ; and pretty . ·oon j1.11np. · up, and says : "\Vhy, law. mn rcy, it'.· lllO.'t night, and f4id not cmne y 't! 'rbat Ita. hecmn<' oft hat hoy ? .. I ,'C'<' 1ny ·hane ; . o I skip.· up and .-ay:: ~~I'll run right up to town and get him;' I . ay.'. '' Xo you won't,~' she .'<lys. " -You'll .·tay right \vhrr' you arr; one's enough to be lo-t at a ii1ne. If he ain't here to . upper your uncl '11 go .. , \V e 11, h ) warn 't there to .·upper ; .'O right after .'upper uncle w nt. lfe cmne back about ten, a little bit un a. y; hadn't run 4Jl acro:s T01n 's i rctC'k. A ani Nally was a aoo<l (leu! nnea~y; bnt Unclr ila.' h ' ;lid i here \Varn ~t no ocea,·irJn to h(_• - hoy: wiJl b<' boy:-:, h e· ~aid and ymt'Il S<'r tl1i ·one turn np in th<· l1H>rni11a all son1Hl an1lrjght. .:-4o slH' had to b :aiisfi cl. Hnl ·h<\ .·a~l ·he'd Het up for hi1n a whil <', nnyway, and kt•ep tt light burning, ~o he uonl<l S<'<' it. Al - ~T ~ALLY 'L\LI\':-i TO JI1Jt'K. And then wl1 en l \V ·ni up to bed ·he coHlc up wj th 1ne and fetch d h r candle, an<l inckecl ll1C' in, and 111otlwrecl 1ne so good I£ 1i Inean, ancllik' I coulcln~t look h r in tl1e fac e ; and ·he .'et d \vn on th b c1 and i nlk d \vith H1L' a J 011 o· t i n1r an< 1 ,·aid what a ·pi ndid boy Hid \Ya~, and didn 'L .. 1n i o wa;1t to er r stop talkina ah >ut hin1; and k ept a:king 1nr <'V ry now and then, if I reckoned he coul<l a g t l .'L, or hurt, r n1ayhe |