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"Uncle John is going, all his wife and children," said Prudy; "and I don't see why Dotty can't." Uncle John was Aunt Martha's husband, and "all his wife and children" meant only Aunt Martha and Lonnie.
"It got tipped over," answered Susy, in a fright, but not forgetting her promise. "Of course it got tipped over but not without hands, you careless girl! Do you get your shaker, and march home as quick as ever you can! I must go with you, I suppose." Lonnie ought to have come forward now, like a little gentleman, and told the whole story; but he had run away.
Like a tidal wave it rolls around the world, foaming at its crest in a golden spray of gifts and love. The mystic hour. "Oh, just a little longer, just a little longer." "No, no. You cain't hardly prop your eyes open now. Come now. Get to bed. Now, Elmer Lonnie; now, Mary Ellen; now, Janey; now, Eddie; now, Lycurgus.
I mind the first time I took her home from singin' school.... Tell you where less hide it. In between the straw tick, and the feather tick." And Luanna May said: "What if company should come?" Elmer Lonnie ran over to Mrs. Waldo's to tell Ma that Pa had come home, and wanted his supper right quick, because he had to get back to the store, there was so much trade in the evenings now.
"'Fresh ink, red as a lobster!" "This minute!" cried Grace. "'As green as a pea! Who'll bid? Going! Going!" "Now, do give it to me, Lonnie," said Susy, climbing into a chair, and reaching after it; "you ain't fair a bit." "'Do you say you bid a bit? That's a ninepence, ma'am. It's yours; going, gone for a ninepence. Knocked off to Miss Parlin."
She did not say, "Bravo! my two nieces are smart children, to be rowing all alone by themselves." Nothing of the sort. She reproved Susy for her rash conduct, and sent her and Lonnie around two miles, by the bridge, to ask Abner to come for them with the canoe. Lonnie was very much comforted when he saw that Susy received no praise.
Somehow, in "knocking it off," out came the stopper, and over went the ink on Susy's fair white apron. Lonnie was dreadfully frightened. "Don't tell that I did it!" cried he. "You know I didn't mean any harm. Won't you promise not to tell?" "Yes, I will," said Susy; but she ought not to have promised any such thing. "O, dear, O dear! What is to be done?"
It was so pleasant in aunt Martha's shaded parlor, and the children took such delight in looking at the books and pictures, that they were all sorry when aunt Louise "got nervous," and thought it was time they went off somewhere to play. "Very well," said dear aunt Martha; "they may go all over the house and grounds, if they like, with Lonnie."
Along about suppertime they make Elmer Lonnie stay outside and watch for his coming, and he has to say: "Hello, pa!" very loud, and romp with him outside the gate so as to give the twins time to gather up the colored zephyrs and things, and hide them in the lower bureau drawer in the spare bedroom.
"Dear little souls," said she, "come right into the house, and let me take off your things. I've been looking for you these two hours. This is my little nephew, Lonnie Adams. Shake hands with the little girls, my dear." Lonnie was a fair-haired, sickly little boy, seven years old. The children very soon felt at ease with him.
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