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That made a noise that could be heard some distance away . `` Now mind , '' said Mrs. Parkney , when she had spoken to the boys and her husband had come out with his tools and two buckets of whitewash and climbed into the wagon with them . `` Mind ! If you eat your lunch up before noon , or get hungry any time , you come up to the house and I 'll fix you something good . And stop in anyway before you go home and have some milk to drink . Mud , Sunny Boy ? Why , bless your heart , dear , a little mud is nothing .