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have to have been there and lived it. Then you wouldn't have looked on it as just a matter Of who began it between the two races. Some guttural exclamation of surprise The Red Man gave in poking about the mill Over the great big thumping shuffling mill-stone Disgusted the Miller physically as coming From one who had no right to be heard from. "Come, John," he said, "you want to see the wheel pit?" He took him down below a cramping rafter, And showed him, through a manhole in the floor, The water in desperate straits like frantic fish, Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails. Then he shut down the trap door with a ring in it That jangled even above the general noise, And came up stairs alone--and gave that laugh, And said something to a man with a meal-sack That the man with the meal-sack didn't catch--then. Oh, yes, he showed John the wheel pit all right. SNOW The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and then blew free again--the Coles Dressed, but dishevelled from some hours of sleep, Meserve belittled in the great skin coat he wore. Meserve was first to speak. He pointed backward Over his shoulder with his pipe-stem, saying, "You can just see it glancing off the roof Making a great scroll upward toward the sky, Long enough for recording all our names on.-- I think I'll just call up my wife and tell her I'm here--so far--and starting on again. I'll call her softly so that if she's wise And gone to sleep, she needn't wake to answer." Three times he barely stirred the bell, then listened. "Why, Lett, still up? Lett, I'm at Cole's. I'm late. I called you up to say Good-night from here Before I went to say Good-morning there.-- I thought I would.--I know, but, Lett--I know-- I could, but what's the sense? The rest won't be So bad.--Give me an hour for it.--Ho, ho, Three hours to here! But that was all up hill; The rest is down.--Why no, no, not a wallow: They kept their heads and took their time to it Like darlings, both of them. They're in the barn.-- My dear, I'm coming just the same. I didn't Call you to ask you to invite me home.--" He lingered for some word she wouldn't say, Said it at last himself, "Good-night," and then, Getting no answer, closed the telephone. The three stood in the lamplight round the table With lo
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