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 Gee whittaker!—there was Winnie Douglas whipped up over the walnut-trees, on the Cowansburg Common, hangin' on for all she was worth, and a-hollerin' for me to come and get her down, hollerin' away there all the time she was driftin' out of sight!"

"W—was she killed?"

"Just her good luck she was n't!" commented Lonely, beating off the lee coast of bewilderment, and heatedly demanding of his imagination just what did become of Miss Winnie Douglas.

"Was she drowned?" demanded Jappie Barrison.

"Nope! Just 's she was goin' over Harding's Hill she hooked her toes on a crab-apple tree, and they came and got her down,with ladders!"