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THE COUNTRY BOY 



sheep, and that particular day I had been 

 playing so hard I forgot them. I was asleep, 

 when they woke me to find out if I was sleep- 

 ing, and then they asked if I had washed my 

 feet; I w^as certain I had, but on bringing a 



candle it proved that I was mistaken as to the 

 date. While I was sitting with just the ends 

 of my toes in a basin of cold well water, try- 

 ing to get up courage enough to shove in the 

 whole foot. Father happened to think of the 

 sheep and he called out, "Are the sheep up?" 



