Outing . THEN I GAVE ONE THRUST VERYHARD AND DEEP Dolphe. I will work with him no is a blunderer—that is what he is—a blunderer. Sure, sure, says Joes two sons. Heis a blunderer, I tell you—a regularblunderer. Right there Dolphe got christenedand the name stuck. The Blunderer—as Im goin to call him from now on—didnt say a word. He just stood theresmilin kind of slow and uncertain, butI could see his big fingers beginnin to 678 THE OUTING MAGAZINE. THEY SAY OLD JOE NEVER SPOKE TOHIM EXCEPT TO CALL HIMA BLUNDERER work and I knew it was time for me totake a hand. Howd this happen? I asks
Outing . THEN I GAVE ONE THRUST VERYHARD AND DEEP Dolphe. I will work with him no is a blunderer—that is what he is—a blunderer. Sure, sure, says Joes two sons. Heis a blunderer, I tell you—a regularblunderer. Right there Dolphe got christenedand the name stuck. The Blunderer—as Im goin to call him from now on—didnt say a word. He just stood theresmilin kind of slow and uncertain, butI could see his big fingers beginnin to 678 THE OUTING MAGAZINE. THEY SAY OLD JOE NEVER SPOKE TOHIM EXCEPT TO CALL HIMA BLUNDERER work and I knew it was time for me totake a hand. Howd this happen? I asks him,knowin that, of the four of em, hed bethe one most likely to give me thestraight story. I do not know, says he. All morn-ing Msieu Joe has stormed at me, call-ing me a blunderer and a fool. I amslow—I know that,—but I have donemy work welh, for I have followed hisevery direction. A while ago he shoutedto me that I was working as a child, andto put my strength into it like a man. Then I gave one thrust, very hard anddeep, and the earth fell out. That isall. I leaned over and looked at the edgesof the break and, down toward the bot-tom, I seen that the levee was all honey-combed with craw-fish holes. I likewiseseen all that had happened that morninas plain as though Id been there—howJoe had cussed and nagged the Blun-derer till hed finally tired of it, and hadthen made him dig out the levee in a rot-ten place he knew of, thinkin I wouldntn
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