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Bunny his father join him. Dad was rally
ing the anybody hurt He the together one
by they all there thank told Paul to run
down to the ranchhouse and his family into hills
told Bunny go with keep away the rea long
way you could tell which direction would explode
the family down their praying the girls
They them up told them co. mind their
shouted to to the goats and they the pen they
weren't needed the pancsrcken flung
against the side of the and broke through
went down the arroyo they would take of themselves
Bunny started back and the way cameDad in his
to keep away from the fire meantime; in the
darkness his life Bunny knew his father
to be caught without something he needed thought
to carry any dynamite around with him his drives
OF Bunny had heard fires which are the
terror of the industry He knew of the devices ordinarily
to extingush them Water use-que contrary
the heat would dissolve the constituents and you
live steam in quantities. and for that many
boilers and they had only here this fire would
ing all the while they fetching Bunny had
fire that burned for ten days until they made conica
hood of steel to slide the WELL with opening top
through which the flames rushed poured
the live And meantime all the
and millions of dollars worth of money burned up Bunny real
lied that desperate alternative Dad going try plug
up the hole by dynamite blast at the risk of running
well.
the wndward SIDE from the flames There they
the engaged in digging shaft close the they
could Bunny understood that preparation
dynamite They had barrier against the couple
Of those steel troughs in which they mixed cement this
they had playing the turning steam as hit
would into the soaring heat chop
with pick, throw shovelsfu of dirt then he
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working the hose lying fiat the with
over his head Fortunately they had from the
WE'LL for their pump of commission along every
thing Dave shouted his got deeper
deeper ran to help Bunny wanted to- but Dave
back so to stand and watch his wild
cat' burning and all he could do bake his
They got down below the surface of the ground and after
that easier but the who worked
seconds and blow that mass of boiling oil over HIM t the
wind held strong steady the jumped
and dug and the dirt flew in showers Presently heywere
nelng wethey go asjhey dared
before they set the dynamite.
suddenly Bunny thought father coming with the
stuff he wouldn't be able to drive the road he'd have
round by the rock hillside carrying that the
darkness Bunny went running fast he dared to help
There down the road many people had
the of the fire, the Bunny inquired
for his father and at last there with much footing
and there Dad and another whom Bunny did
They drove they daredthe Watkins
long swallowed by the flames They stopped got
and Dad told Bunny to take the car back safe place. and
not him the other with the dynamite
would make their to the WELL carefully Bunny heard
Dad telling the go Slow they'd lives
jist to few barrels of oil
When Bunny got back the well again. the man
were already there the setting dynamite
They had kind of electric battery to explode WITH
presently they ready and everybody stood back
strange pushed down handle and there and
burst of flame the shaft the geyser was
rushing of the well snubbed off in instan-just as
il you stopped garden hose by pnching it, The oil
dropped eaped and exploded times more
the end The river of fire still flowing down the arroyo
would take long burn itself the part of
the show over
And nobody hurt-that is, nobody but Bunny who
stood the the glare gazing stump
beautiful oil derrick and the charred foundations
make bunkhouse, and all the weckage of his hopes
boy had been little younger there would have
his eyes Dad him his guessed
the truth and began laugh whats the matter