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Pretty soon out comes Peter, looking dubious at the sky. "If it was anybody else but Beriah," he says, "I'd say this mornings prophecy ought to be sent to Puck. Where is the seventh son of the seventh son the only original American seer?" He wasn't in the weather-shanty, and we finally found him on one of the seats 'way up on the edge of the bluff.
I found Beriah at the weather-shanty about an hour afterwards with his head on his arms. He looked up when I come in. "Mr. Wingate," he says, "I'm a fool, but for the land's sake don't think I'm SUCH a fool as not to know that this here storm was bound to strike to-day. I lied," he says; "I lied about the weather for the first time in my life; lied right up and down so as to get her mad with him.
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