Charley blasts the ice jam; tells the kids about the pet, Tom Thumb, of the wife of the boss of the "T Bar T" ranch: a galumphing crossbreed Great Dane & Wolfhound who stole things. Drought was bad, the wash a trickle. Dan was going to blast a hole for water to fill up: when his cows came off the range they could drink. The dynamite was missing. He was angry. TT came in, a box of blasting caps in his mouth. Eek! Later, with binoculars, Dan saw TT drop the box off the bluff, 50 feet, on the dynamite where he'd dropped it, too. The blast toppled the bluff into the wash, damming the water.

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