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When several crisp bills had been handed over, and the account receipted, Captain Josh turned to the storekeeper. "Jist a word before we go, Peter McDuff," he began. "It is well fer you that ye've settled up this business at once. I advise ye not to try any more of yer tricks upon people after this, especially upon a boy scout.
"I!" exclaimed Kate. "Rob, you mean." "That's a good dog," said Mr. Darby, the storekeeper; "what'll you take for him?" "Not for sale," said Harry. "Rob's all very well," remarked Tony Kirk; "but it won't do to have a feller like that in the woods, a fright'nin' the children. I'd like to know who he is."
To do Eben justice, it must be admitted that he had good business capacity, and if he had been able, like his father, to exercise self-denial, and make money-getting his chief enjoyment, he would no doubt have become a rich man in time. As it was, whenever he could make his companions pay for his pleasures, he did so. I now come to the letter which had brought disquietude to the storekeeper.
The tradesman was a man of consequence in Quebec, being what is there called a large storekeeper, though we in England should have called him a shopkeeper. About one o'clock in the morning, we hammered at his door with no gentle tap, demanding admittance in the name of our sovereign lord the king.
Outside the door he paused. "The little devil's starved," he said. "Put some meat on those ribs, Chief, and be a bit easy with him!" This last was facetious, the Chief being known to have the heart of a child. So the Red Un went on the payroll of the line, and requisition was made on the storekeeper for the short-tailed coat and the long trousers, and on the barber for a hair-cut.
When the storekeeper heard it, together with the embellishments it carried by reason of its having so often changed hands, he first gave Fraser a grip to show his gratitude, and then sat back and enjoyed the fun. Fraser, sorely tried by the taunts of his brother-officers, repaid Lounsbury with glances of wounded reproof.
If he does go to a hotel, he engages a room only, and dines alongside his waggon or else he goes to his particular storekeeper and indulges in sardines and sweet biscuits He is great on sardines, and his only regret perhaps, is that the tin is not edible also. A Dutch Nachtmaal in the olden days was a sight quite equal to any Lord Mayor's show.
Why, it would take about all I get from the post office." "You wouldn't expect me to take less than I can earn elsewhere, Mr. Graham," said Herbert. "No-o!" answered the storekeeper, slowly. He was evidently nonplused by the absolute necessity of getting another clerk, and his inability to think of a suitable person.
Wheeler was nothing if not cautious. Three mornings later, a little after seven o'clock, when the storekeeper and his small daughter were preparing to go to Brampton upon a very troublesome errand, Chester Perkins appeared again.
"Has Jethro Bass ever been a member of the Legislature?" asked the storekeeper, for the sake of something to say. "Never would take any office but Chairman of the Selectmen," answered Moses, who apparently bore no ill will for his father's sake. "Jethro kind of fathers the Legislatur', I guess, though I don't take much stock in politics.
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