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Half of your gold shall be taken from you, and used to buy food and shelter for your faithful horse. "The miser hung his head. It made him sad to lose his gold; but the people laughed and shouted, as the old horse was led away to a comfortable stall and a dinner fit for the steed of a king." "Hooray!" cried Don. "Good for the brave old horse! Grandpa, I'm so glad you aren't a miser!"
Carleton is at whipping the trees." "How came he to go with you?" "I don't know; I suppose it was to please me, in the first place; but I am sure he enjoyed it himself; and he liked the pie and cheese, too, Cynthy." "Where did your cousin go?" "O, he went off after the woodcock. I hope he didn't find any." "What do you think of those two young men, Fairy?" "In what way, grandpa?"
But Dick was looking from Grandpa to Miss Joyce and then to Daddy who had come, smiling, in at the back door. "You mean. . . ." The words choked Dick. "You mean we might settle here? But how? Who fixed it?" "The government!" Grandpa said triumphantly. "Mind you, this place is the government's fixing, to give migrants a chance to take root again.
Oh. grandpa! did you hear me praying for you yesterday? Dear Grandy my own dear Grandy! I did pray for you while you were dying here alone! Oh, my God! what have I done, that you should take him away from me? Was not I on my knees when he died? Oh! what will become of me now? Nobody to care for Edna now! Oh, grandpa! grandpa! beg Jesus to ask God to take me too!"
Jewel apparently interrupted him and he stooped with a quick motion, and in a second she was sitting on his shoulder, shrieking in gleeful surprise. Thus they approached the piazza and came close before noting that it was occupied. "Grandpa, see me!" cried Jewel delightedly. Bonnell met the unsmiling gaze of his host as Mr. Evringham rose, and then caught sight of Mrs.
"Why what are those bars down for?" she said as they came up with a field of winter grain. "Somebody's been in here with a wagon. O grandpa! Mr. Didenhover has let the Shakers have my butternuts! the butternuts that you told him they mustn't have." The old gentleman drew up his horse. "So he has!" said he.
This island is a good place for getting hungry." "And this is a good place to be stopped from getting hungry," laughed Grandpa Martin, as he pulled his chair up to the well-filled table near which Nora stood ready to serve the meal. The Curlytops and Hal had just a little idea that the grown folks would not like their plan of digging a gold mine, so nothing was said about it.
Bunny and Susan and Grandpa Grumbles cried, "Hush, be still, stop crying, and tell us what is the matter." Grandpa Grumbles asked, "Did you hurt your ugly little nose?" Then Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled louder than ever. Bunny asked, "Did you get stuck fast in another snowdrift?" Snubby Nose cried so loudly that they did not hear the "patter, patter, patter" of little feet.
"Yes, indeed, those same Curlytops!" It was easy to understand why Grandpa Martin, as well as nearly everyone else, called the two Martin children Curlytops. It was because their hair was so tightly curling to their heads.
He wrote to Grandpa Horton now and then, to be sure, and at Christmas time he wrote one or two "thank you" letters to the relatives and friends who sent him Christmas presents. But, as a rule, he did not write letters, and that is probably the reason he did not receive many. Still, it is fun to expect letters, and Sunny Boy liked to say: "Any for me?" to the postman.
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