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 and wrestled the thing up close beside me, where I could keep my hand on it. But that didn't help much; for every time that the train lurched, or went around a bend, it jiggled so that I was absolutely sure that it would slide off. And then I had an idea,—a perfectly good one. I took the blanket and tied one corner of it to some sort of a knob, or hook or something, in the back of the berth, and the other corner through the handle of the case. It left some slack, because the blanket was too thick to draw far through the handle; but I had it tied tight, and knew it couldn't get away, so I crawled under the rope of blanket, and went to sleep.

"I was just explaining to Mabelle that the bright, shiny cow that we could see up in the sky, jumping over the moon, was really a meteor, and had teeth in both jaws, because I could see them, when suddenly it stumbled and came keeling over and over, right down toward us, and then it landed on my breast with a thud, and held me down, crushing me so I couldn't breathe,—and my arms were under it, too, so I couldn't struggle;—and then I knew I was awake, and there must be a wreck, and I was under the timbers; and I