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(lidn 't happen to be mixed up in our back- 

 door landscape somewhere. The fishin' in- 

 dustry would die out completely for all of 

 her. Ab 'most always succeeded in 

 overtempting me that a way, too. But he 

 never comes around brandishing a hoe. Not 

 Ah. And he didn 't come this time. So I 

 got out to the old barn alone except for my 

 own surging thoughts, and began on those 

 potatoes. I got the first two bushels sorted 

 by hand-feeling, and then looked around for 

 the wheelbarrow to wheel them up to the 

 house. But you don't find a wheelbarrow 

 after night that you left off using in a 

 hurry just before going fishin ' the day be- 

 fore. I never have, and I didn't this time. 

 So I humped myself to it and carried those 

 two bushels and sixteen other just as heavy 

 bushels of night-sorted potatoes into that 

 dark old cellar of mine and dumped them 

 into the potato-bin there. I had got to th? 

 very last busheJ of potatoes, most of wliich 

 had rolled away up uudor the feed-trough in 

 the old horse-stall, and it was baek-crackin ' 

 and soul-wrackin' woik to get the lifeline to 

 'em. T was talkirg more or less to 'em con- 

 tinuously about why they had to roll away 

 up under that feed-trough, anyway. But I 

 finally got the last one aboard the basket, 

 and Avas trying to straighten straight up in 

 the gloom of the stall and see if my back- 

 bone Avould ever come together again and 

 the pieces work together as a reunited and 

 happy family of spinal vertebree, when — 

 great geewhilllkens, Jehu, John-Henry, dad- 

 bust it, dingbing it (rest all censored). * * * 



