The farmer's boy . (ningcr l)r()lliers,Jomnn-and Johnny, excitedly. Thats a blucl)ir(l, surel)op! Puddles had gathered in the soggy snow along the road-side, and the liltie stream in llie meadow had overflowed :!0 Sjiring 31 its banks. Wlirn thr hoy ])(.M\ci\(.(l ihis, lie hrcamcimnu-diakly anxious to grl into his ruhhcT hoots and <fowadini^. His mothiT had a douhiful opinion of these. wadings, hut it was sucli a maltrr of Hfr and death to theboy that she- ha;l not ihr heart to iv:u>c him, and con-le-nlcd herself with admonitions not to stav out loo long,not to wade in too dee]), not to
The farmer's boy . (ningcr l)r()lliers,Jomnn-and Johnny, excitedly. Thats a blucl)ir(l, surel)op! Puddles had gathered in the soggy snow along the road-side, and the liltie stream in llie meadow had overflowed :!0 Sjiring 31 its banks. Wlirn thr hoy ])(.M\ci\(.(l ihis, lie hrcamcimnu-diakly anxious to grl into his ruhhcT hoots and <fowadini^. His mothiT had a douhiful opinion of these. wadings, hut it was sucli a maltrr of Hfr and death to theboy that she- ha;l not ihr heart to iv:u>c him, and con-le-nlcd herself with admonitions not to stav out loo long,not to wade in too dee]), not to get his ilothes wet, etc.,etc. The boy began with one of the small jjuddle^, tor hehad these cautions in his mind, hut llie scope of his continually enlarged, and he |)resentlv was Irvingto determine just how deej) a phut. he could \enture intowithout letting the water em loat h oMr hi> boot-top^. He 32 The Farmers Boy did not desist from the experiment until he feh a coldtrickle douTi one of his legs, from wliich sensation he con-cluded that he got in just a little too far that time, and hebeat a hasty retreat. But he had made his mind easy onthe point as to how deep he could go, and now turned hisattention to poking about with a stick he had picked was C[uite charmed with the way he could make thewater and slush spatter with tliat stick. When he grewtired o
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