"Harold!" Melinda was properly shocked. "Don't you dare talk that way
about Miss Cathby!"
"Ha!" Harky crowed. "I'll--"
The battle that might have resulted from this impact of Miss Cathby's
education with the lore and legend of the Creeping Hills was forestalled
when two hounds began to bay at Old Joe's sycamore. They were Thunder
and Duckfoot.
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