THE COUNTRY BOY 



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low who had been used to sweeping out stores 

 yelled to sprinkle them, so they did; but they 

 only quelled the big feathers, which amounted 

 to about half of them, while the dangerous 



kind were all up in the air and wouldn't come 

 down to be sprinkled, so they had to close the 

 rink for the afternoon — what had started as the 

 busiest afternoon of the season. 



