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Title: Rudder Grange
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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e boy he said some-thin or other pretty bad, an away he goes after him;but the horse was a-trottin real fast, an had a goodstart. How on earth could you ever think of doing suchthings? said Euphemia. That horse might haveupset the wagon and broken all the lightning-rods,besides running over I dont know how many people. But you see, maam, that wasnt my lookout, saidPomona. I was a-defendin the house, an theenemy must expect to have things happen to him.So then I hears an awful row on the roof, an therewas the man just coming down the ladder. Hedheard the horse go off, an when he got about half-way down, an caught a sight of the bull-dog, he wasmadder than ever you seed a lightnin-rodder in allyour born days. Take that dog off of there! heyelled at me. No, I wont, says I. I never see agirl like you since I was born ! he screams at me. Iguess it would a been better fur you if you had/ saysI. An then he was so mad he couldnt stand it anylonger, an he comes down as low as he could, an: 156
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A.8,Tl?Q$>T. i ( Take that dog off of there! RUDDER GRANGE when he saw just how long the rope was,—which waspretty short,—he made a jump, an landed clear ofthe dog. Then he went on dreadful because hecouldnt get at his ladder to take it away; an Iwouldnt untie the dog, because if I had hed a tornthe tendons out of that fellows legs in no time. Inever see a dog in such a boiling passion, an yetnever making no sound at all but blood-curdlingrunts. An I dont see how the rodder would a gothis ladder at all if the dog hadnt made an awful jumpat him, an jerked the ladder down. It just missedyour geranium-bed, an the rodder he ran to theother end of it, an began pullin it away, dog an all.Look-a-here, says I, we can fix him now. An so hecooled down enough to help me, an I unlocked thefront door, an we pushed the bottom end of theladder in, dog an all: an then I shut the door astight as it would go, an untied the end of the rope,an the rodder pulled the ladder out while I held thedoor

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