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Russ sprang to his feet, knocking aside the pieces of his mill in doing / so, and rushed around the bush to see what had happened to Laddie. It / was just as the smaller boy had said-he had fallen in the deepest part / of the water back of the dam.
But, after all, it was not very deep, for the brook was a small one. / The water would not have been over Laddie's head if he stood upright. / But the trouble was that Laddie had slipped as he was about to lift a / heavy stone on top of the dam, and had gone down sideways.