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the Lord is no longer perswaded we should continue in<br />

this toilsome Journie, I judge from the bloodie Blistering<br />

of my great Toe. Some ale from the Hogshead, good<br />

Agatha, here be our Home!" The star saw three<br />

hundred years ago the founding by the Rampage of<br />

Dingley Falls. And farther stars saw flood across<br />

America, and farther still saw ice.<br />

"What do You care?" asked Ramona, looking up at<br />

the star-bright sky. "You or Your Son either?"<br />

Much closer, off beyond the marshlands, a quick<br />

flick of light spiraled down to Bredforet Pond. Falling<br />

stars are much more haphazard, thought the old<br />

woman. It had to be methodical man. But why, she<br />

wondered, should flying saucers be so persistently<br />

fascinated with a Connecticut marsh? Maybe the idea<br />

of UFOs was nonsense after all. Her eyes were still as<br />

good as a hawk's. If only she had her legs and her wind<br />

back. She would find out. Perhaps it was smugglers.<br />

From Canada. Perhaps somebody was smuggling<br />

something to America. Through her town. Well, she<br />

would send a spy whom life had not yet crippled. She<br />

would borrow young legs. With that plan in mind, Miss

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