In Winter Quarters 



quated dairy utensil. Science had not 

 yet given the separator to a weary, 

 waiting dairy world. Churning was 

 woman's work anyhow. Just the same 

 it had to be done; but no house service 

 he ever rendered was gone about with 

 fiercer rebellion in his heart. Of course 

 he did not tell "the gang" what it 

 was that kept him away entirely from 

 that fondly-anticipated rendezvous, for 

 that would have been the signal for too 

 many humiliating jeers from "Skin- 

 nay" and the rest, and so one of mid- 

 summer's few great days of the long 

 ago for him was all but ruined. 



All in all therefore the end of sum- 

 mer brought few regrets, and it was a 

 happy bunch that responded to the 

 school bell's clang in late September. 

 It was hard sometimes at first, espe- 

 cially when dreamy Indian Summer 

 days had come, to be penned up inside 

 when mysterious woods in scarlet, gold 

 and brown bedecked were calling cease- 

 lessly, for all boys knew that after 

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