CHAPTER XI
THE BENEFIT DANCE
"Those there are whose hearts have a slope
southward, and are open to the whole
noon of Nature."
OTWITHSTANDING
the fact that calamities seldom come singly, it was not until the Fourth of July that the Cabbage Patch was again the scene of an accident.
Mrs. Wiggs had been hanging out clothes, and was turning to pick up the empty basket, when Billy precipitated himself into the yard, yelling wildly:
"Chris Hazy's broke his leg!"
Mrs. Wiggs threw up her hands in
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