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She'd reel off a couple of fathom of verses from fellers named Spencer or Waller, or such like, and he'd never turn a hair, but back he'd come and say they was good, but he preferred Confucius, or Methuselah, or somebody so antique that she nor nobody else ever heard of 'em. Oh, he run a safe course, and he had HER in tow afore they turned the first mark. Jonadab and me got worried.

After the wedding the folks was sitting under the palms and bushes that was growing in tubs all over the house, and the stewards there was enough of 'em to man a four-master was carting 'round punch and frozen victuals. Everybody was togged up till Jonadab and me, in our new cutaways, felt like a couple of moulting blackbirds at a blue-jay camp-meeting.

When they'd gone, Jonadab turned to Ebenezer and he says: "That taking us out on this boat was another case of having fun with the countrymen. Hey?" "I guess so," says Dillaway. "I b'lieve he told one of the guests that he was going to put Cape Cod on ice this morning." I looked away up the river where a little black speck was just getting to shore.

What he cal'lated to do was to start a weather prophesying bureau all on his own hook, with Beriah for prophet, and him for manager and general advertiser, and Jonadab and me to help put up the money to get her going. He argued that summer folks from Scituate to Provincetown, on both sides of the Cape, would pay good prices for the real thing in weather predictions.

Jonadab and me was a little worried, but he was advertising us like fun, his photographs snap shots by Peter was getting into the papers, so we judged he was a good investment. But Peter got bluer and bluer. One night we was in the setting room me and Jonadab and the count and Ebenezer. The "queen" and the rest of the boarders was abed.

But her place wa'n't any too sartin and she didn't dare risk it. Over she walked to that table, and the fun began. "Jonadab had laid himself out to make that meal a success, but they ate it as if 'twas pretty poor stuff and not by no means what they fed on every day.

He seemed like such a good feller that we didn't mind his telling a few big ones; we'd known good fellers afore that liked to lie gunners and such like, they were mostly. Somehow or 'nother Phil got Cap'n Jonadab talking "boat," and when Jonadab talks "boat" there ain't no stopping him.

And next day Cap'n Jonadab was round, madder'n a licked pup. Seems Susannah's lawyer at Orham had sent for her to come right off and see him. Somethin' about the suit, it was. And she was goin' in spite of everything. And with Effie's leavin' at the same time, what was we goin' to do over Sunday? and so forth and so on. "Well, we had to do the best we could, that's all.

That February wind went in at the top of my stiff hat and whizzed out through the legs of my thin Sunday pants till I felt for all the world like the ventilating pipe on an ice-chest. I could see why Phil was wearing the bed-clothes; what I was suffering for just then was a feather mattress on each side of me. Well, me and Jonadab was "it" for quite a spell.

Then we went up to our room and the Cap'n laid down on the bed. He was beat out, he said, and wanted to rest up a spell afore haulin' anchor for another cruise." "Where's the arrestin' come in?" demanded Stitt. "Comes quick now, Bailey. Plenty quick enough for me and Jonadab, I tell you that!