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"You've been wonderful!" murmured Mrs Moore "Do you know, Mr Wolf has done well too His wife said he couldn't speak a word of English when he caer of the Grand Dry Goods Cohty pretty wife"

It was Mrs Moore's turn to grunt, which she did, in the manner of a wifely sniff And the two sat in silence, hands clasped in the lovely suet beyond a first attean the tunnel the next day, he and the two little Wolfs digging vigorously until a hole as large as a bath tub was coer conceived the idea of ue lesson won from previous experience iven, the three children spent an ecstatic, though ested that evening that the pool be gradually enlarged topool He enlisted Mr Wolf's aid for the sus and in a couple of weeks a very creditable pool, brick and concrete lined, made a summer heaven of the back yard for the little friends

It was the pool that er's childhood It was the one, anyway, to which in after years his reatest frequency

Even little Charley learned to swiet her slender beauty, as she stood ready for her dive on the pool edge This was his lastthat fall and moved away Somebody said that Mr Preble drank up his farer's tenth summer was memorable too But he ceased to think of himself as a child then, because that was the su he was practically his own ive him no ti the six weeks that Mrs Moore was the sickest The night that his h her crisis, men threw stones in the kitchen s

Mrs Moore believed that she was going to die One day when her mind was clear, despite her deathly weakness, she made them leave the little boy alone with her while she told hi anxiety over his te ht She made him proo to his father and not let naughty er sobbed, she fell asleep and when she woke she was definitely better But Roger never felt like a child again He felt that he knew all that men knew about life, and death as well