If you'll
take it, I'll raise you the price of a new coat, but I'll be domn
if I'll hilp put such a man as you are into another of the
fiminine ginder."
The Thread Man laughed, and shook Jimmy's hand; and then Jimmy
proved why every one liked him by turning to Dannie and taking
his hand. "Thank you, Dannie," he said. "You sure hilped me to
mesilf that time. If I'd hit him, I couldn't have hild up me head
in the morning."
Chapter IV
WHEN THE KINGFISHER AND THE BLACK BASS CAME HOME
"Crimminy, but you are slow." Jimmy made the statement, not as
one voices a newly discovered fact, but as one iterates a
time-worn truism. He sat on a girder of the Limberlost bridge,
and scraped the black muck from his boots in a little heap. Then
he twisted a stick into the top of his rat sack, preparatory to
his walk home. The ice had broken on the river, and now the
partners had to separate at the bridge, each following his own
line of traps to the last one, and return to the bridge so that
Jimmy could cross to reach home. Jimmy was always waiting, after
the river opened, and it was a remarkable fact to him that as
soon as the ice was gone his luck failed him. This evening the
bag at his feet proved by its bulk that it contained just about
one-half the rats Dannie carried.
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