Copper-toed Boots [antikvár]

s, ^HAD slammed the kitchen door and threw down the pan in which he had carried the potato parings for the chickens. Then he set the pail of drinking water on the shelf with a thud. He was still mad. Miss McKinnon had kept him an hour after school, and made him do sum after sum. Ma called to him from the other room, where she was setting the table for supper. "Wash good, now, and don't wipe all the dirt on the towel!" she said. "Cousin Lija's here. He's just stepped over to say 'Hello' to Miz Scott." "Yes, Ma," said Shad putting the tin basin in the wooden sink, and beginning to pump. Pa had just had the cistern rain water pumped in that spring. Shad thought how much carrying of water it saved. He could smell the delicious odor of the potatoes, and hear their gentle sissing in the iron pan. Shad dabbled his hands in the water round and round. He was