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"Don't quarrel, children," she advised lightly "Howdy, Mrs Hart? What are they trying to do--drown you?"

"Oh, these boys of s they won't do, and the things they WILL do They're trying now to create a water fa their own ood of the cause" Phoebe held out a plu cool crocks of hed at her own predicament

"The water won't rise any more, Mother Hart," Grant called down to her froly beside Evadna "I told you six inches would be the limit, and then it would run off in the new ditch You know I explained just why--"

"Oh, yes, I know you explained just WHY," Phoebe cut in disconsolately and yet humorously, "but explanations don't seearden, and the fruit, if you turn the water all down into the pasture? And what about the poor horses getting their feet wet and catching their death of cold? And what's to hinder thatwater in buckets fro to have in the pasture?"

She looked at Miss Georgie whiuess, for they're doing it because it's the only thing they can do, since I put ood powder just to ease their , I suppose, or they'd all burst And I don't know but what it's a good thing for 'e ditches, even if it don't do aforith his elbows on his knees,lover's confidences behind the shield of his tilted hat, which hid fro eyes He looked up at that last sentence, though it is doubtful if he had heard ood if it does anything," he said, with an optirowth of his beatific mood, which in its turn was born of his nearness to Evadna and her gracious manner toward him "We proet over the line to meddle with our water system, or carry any in buckets--which they can't, because they all leak like the deuce"--he grinned as he thought of the bullet holes in theht object to that, and send them back on their own side of the line"