DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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I rushed out of that schoolhouse yard and down<br />
the street toward the lake front, and run, stumbling<br />
along and looking up. She was getting smaller<br />
every minute. And with my head in the air looking<br />
up I was running plumb to the edge of the<br />
water before I knowed it.<br />
She was away out over the lake now, and awful<br />
high, and going fast before the wind, and the doctor<br />
was only a speck. And as I stared at that speck<br />
away up in the sky I thought this was a mean world<br />
to live in. Fur there was the only real friend I<br />
ever had, and no way fur me to help him. He had<br />
learnt me to read, and bought me good clothes,<br />
and made me know they was things in the world<br />
worth travelling around to see, and made me feel<br />
like I was something more than jest Old Hank<br />
Walters's dog. And I guessed he would be drownded<br />
and I would never see him agin now. And all of<br />
a sudden something busted loose inside of me,<br />
and I sunk down there at the edge of the water,<br />
sick at my stomach, and weak and shivering.<br />
CHAPTER X<br />
I didn't exactly faint there, but things got<br />
all mixed fur me, and when they was<br />
straightened out agin I was in a hospital.<br />
It seems I had been considerable stepped on in<br />
that fight, and three ribs was broke. I knowed<br />
I was hurting, but I was so interested in what was<br />
happening to the doctor the hull hurt never come<br />
to me till the balloon was way out over the lake.<br />
But now I was in a plaster cast, and before I<br />
got out of that I was in a fever. I was some weeks<br />
getting out of there.<br />
I tried to get some word of Doctor Kirby, but<br />
couldn't. Nothing had been heard of him or the