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Billy laughed and explained, and the other was relieved-- the reduppere's rass and se, "what's doing now?"

"Let's be hikin'," said Billy

Bridge rose and stretched "'My feet are tired and need a change Coether the food they had not yet eaten, and e

"We'll divide the pack," he explained, "and here, drink the rest o' thisto do with the pail?" asked Bridge

"Return it," said Billy "'Maw' just loaned it to e elevated his eyebrows a trifle He had been reeted the her pail--which, if the truth were known, she had not expected to see again--and gave theolden-brown cookies, the tops of which were encrusted with sugar

As they walked away Bridge sighed "Nothing on earth like a good woman," he said

"'Maw,' or 'Penelope'?" asked Billy

"Either, or both," replied Bridge "I have no Penelope, but I did have aof the slovenly, blear-eyed woht him into the world The memory was far froe,'" he said, quite suddenly, and apropos of nothing, in an effort to change the subject "That's an odd nae before"

"Just a nae "I used to use a feords he'd never heard before, so he calledThe fellows shortened it to 'Bridge' and it stuck It has always stuck, and now I haven't any other I even think of reed Billy, and that was the end of it He never thought of asking his coe would have questioned him as to his, or of his past The ethics of the roadside fire and the empty tomato tin do not countenance such impertinences