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but as none of us knew the tune, and Ezekiel
himself liadn’t a speek of music in him, the song
wouldn’t go. For it didn’t hel]) us at all for
him to insist that he heard the tune plainly in
his head. Then Nils Trap made a speech in
honor of the ladies; I remember how I admired
the few telling words: “ A cheer and four shots
for the ladies!” Not a bit more! I thought
that sounded so awfully manlike.
Peter rushed off to the top of the fort to fire
off the shots, Karsten after him, his hair
stand-ing on end. The stones went crashing over—
the next moment we heard a doleful shriek
from below. Peter came rushing down to the
dungeon, ashy-gray under his freckles, crying:
“ Oh, Mother—Mother–––”
We all dashed up instantly. Down below
the fort, just at the foot of the precipice, stood
the dean’s little erooked wife, with a pur])le
kerchief over her head and one siender hånd
held up in the air. The stone, which had been
fired off in honor of the ladies, lay less than two
feet from her!
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