. St. Nicholas [serial]. , SHE BOWED TO HER IMAGE. As she stood there, wild-eyed and tearful, athought made its way through the kinky hairinto her bewildered brain. She darted backinto the house, and reappeared with a broom. I se gwine up dat ladder, she said withgrim determination, an I se gwine to sweepdem sparks off. An effen I cant sweep emoff I kin spank em out. i6o THE WATERMELON STOCKINGS. [ FROM SIDE TO SIDE S AND FIGHTING THE FIRE. The fire at the barn was now raging; great,volumes of smoke swept toward the house,heavily laden with live embers. Mazin Grace,choking and frightened,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. , SHE BOWED TO HER IMAGE. As she stood there, wild-eyed and tearful, athought made its way through the kinky hairinto her bewildered brain. She darted backinto the house, and reappeared with a broom. I se gwine up dat ladder, she said withgrim determination, an I se gwine to sweepdem sparks off. An effen I cant sweep emoff I kin spank em out. i6o THE WATERMELON STOCKINGS. [ FROM SIDE TO SIDE S AND FIGHTING THE FIRE. The fire at the barn was now raging; great,volumes of smoke swept toward the house,heavily laden with live embers. Mazin Grace,choking and frightened, wielded her broomwith telling effect; no sooner did a spark touchthe roof than it was brushed off into the longgrass below. But they were coming faster andfaster, and, watch as she would, she could notkeep some of them from igniting the dry shin-gles. From side to side she scrambled, sweep-ing, beating, fighting the fire with all the strengthin her little body. Her eyes smarted fiercely,her feet were bruised, the heat was suffocat-ing; but Mazin Grace never thought of de-serting her post: she worked, as she , with all her might and main, pittingher puny strength valiantly against that of theflames. But courage does not always bring when the fire at the barn began to subside,and the sparks ceased to fall on the roof, a tinycolumn of smoke began to curl up from thegabled ro
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