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but the mercury had already been blowed out of the tube so there wasn’t apy reading.
In the meantime, out of the corner of my eye there went my cordwood jumpin’ along on the top of a huge wave down 500 feet to the bottom of the hill. Then the rain quit for a piece, but not that wind. At this point the lady poked!: her head out of the- basement just as 1 said, Mighty Ceasar, look at that flock of buzzards cornin’ to get us. But she took a good look, and said, those ain’t buzzards — “That’s your wood pipe cornin’ back.”
And sure enough, don’t you know that every one of those four foot lengths that had been carried down the hill ten minutes before, came flying back. And it wasn’t no time atall before that two cords of wood was back in the exact same place, piled as neat as a cushion full of pins —verticlef
But the horses were callin’ for their sweet feed so wind or no wind I wanted to be kind. I hung on the burrs of the barb wire fence and inched along. The chores took a spell, so the lady got somewhat impatient and yelled, come on and have some coffee and cookies.
Then a funny thing happened — that powerful wind took the lady’s words 1/4 mile to three neighbors. They recognized her voice. Each one of them took it for a special invitation and when I got back to the house there were 12 women and children in the kitchen. There’s always cookies in
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