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"Now, boys, be nice," said some one soothingly. "The garden is
large enough for you both to work in. Rad, you begin at the lower
end and spade toward the middle. Koku, you begin at the upper end
and work down. Whoever gets to the middle first will win."
"Ha! Den I'll show dat giant some spade wuk as is spade wuk!"
cried the colored man. "Garden wuk is mah middle name."
"Be careful, Rad!" laughed Mr. Damon, for he it was who was
trying to act as peacemaker. "Remember that Koku is very strong."
"Yas, sah! He may be strong, but he's clumsy!" chuckled
Eradicate. "You watch me beat him!"
"Ho! Black man get stuck in mud!" challenged Koku. "I show
him!"
Then there was silence, and Tom and his father, looking out,
saw the two disputants beginning to spade the soil while Mr.
Damon, satisfied that he had, for the time being, stopped a
quarrel, turned toward the house.
"I was just coming to look for you," said Tom. "Sorry I had to
go off in such a hurry and leave you, but I had promised to take
Mary for a ride, and as it was her first one, for a distance, I
didn't want her to back out.


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