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Rh several packages, while his face flushed with more colour than on the previous day. "Only see what has happened to me!" cried Elnora, offering her letter. "I'll wager I know!" answered Ammon. "Isn't it great! Every one in Onabasha is talking about it. At last there is something new under the sun. All of them are pleased. They think you'll make a big success. This will give an incentive to work. In a few days more I'll be myself again, and we'll overturn the fields and woods around here." He went on to congratulate Mrs. Comstock. "Aren't you proud of her though?" he asked. "You should hear what folks are saying! They say she created the necessity for the position, and every one seems to feel that it is a necessity. Now, if she succeeds, and she will, all of the other city schools will have such departments, and first thing you know she will have made the whole world just a little better. Let me rest a few seconds; my feet are acting up again. Then we will cook the compound and put it to cool." He laughed as he sat breathing shortly. "It doesn't seem possible that a fellow could lose his strength like this. My knees are actually trembling, but I'll be all right in a minute. Uncle Doc said I could come. I told him how you took care of me, and he said I would be safe here." Then he began unwrapping packages and explaining to Mrs. Comstock how to cook the compound to attract