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THE COUNTRY BOY
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low who had been used to sweeping out stores yelled to sprinkle them, so they did; but they only quelled the big feathers, which amounted to about half of them, while the dangerous kind were all up in the air and wouldn’t come down to be sprinkled, so they had to close the rink for the afternoon—what had started as the busiest afternoon of the season.