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Skyrider

CHAPTER ONE
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Condescension went far enough when she stooped to reprove the idiot by finishing the verse that he had failed to finish, because he had already overtaxed his poor little brain.
Stooping, then, to reprove, and flout, and ridicule, Mary V finished the verse so that it read thus: "Through the clouds we'll float in my airplane boat-- For Venus I am truly sorry! All the stars you sight, you witless wight, You'll see when you and Venus light! But then--I'm sure that I should worry!" Mary V was tempted to write more.

She rather fancied that term "witless wight" as applied to Johnny Jewel.

It had a classical dignity which atoned for the slang made necessary by her instant need of a rhyme for sorry.
But there was the danger of being caught in the act by some meddlesome fellow who loved to come snooping around where he had no business, so Mary V placed the tablet open on the table just as she had found it, and left the bunk house without deigning to fulfill the errand of mercy that had taken her there.

Why should she trouble to sew the lining in a coat sleeve for a fellow who pined for a silly flirtation with Venus?
Let Johnny Jewel paw and struggle to get into his coat.

Better, let Venus sew that lining for him! Mary V stopped halfway to the house, and hesitated.


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