“You didn’t help it along, did you? You know the injunction was, ‘without intervention of human hands.’”
“I didn’t intervent my hands, Mr. Stone,” said the boy, earnestly, “honest I didn’t. But—it wasn’t nominated in the bond that I shouldn’t kick around those old decaying roots with my foot—just so’s if it should take a notion to fall it would fall heading north!”
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