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Laddie

CHAPTER XII
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If it did, it would go from the door, right into the midst thereof.
Nothing but my red hood sailing straight at it, and a yell I have, drove it back.

No one hit the barn again, the line closed up, and went on at a run now, they were so anxious to meet and see what they had.
Then came the beat of hoofs and I saw that all the riders had dropped back, and were behind the line of people on foot.

I watched Laddie as he flew past waving to me, and I grabbed my scarf to wave at him.

The Princess flashed by so swiftly I couldn't see how she looked, and then I heard a voice I knew cry: "Ep! Ep! Over Lad!" And I almost fell dead where I stood.

Mr.Pryor sailed right over the barnyard fence into the cornfield, ripping that dumb-bell as he went, and neck and neck, even with him, on one of his finest horses, was our Leon.


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