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`` I'll get more snow '', I said.

I took the pail and shovel and went out on the porch.

I don't know where Ma went.

I thought she'd gone upstairs and expected to hear she had.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.