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In a certain circle no occasion of the sort was considered complete without his presence There was no such thing as dullness when he was about. His peculiar wit or his simplicity was brought out at a dinner-party one day at Dr. Bascom's. There was a large gathering of the leading families of San Jose and vicinity, and Uncle Joe was there in his jolliest mood. Mrs.
The day that President Garfield was shot by the assassin Guiteau, we were at a little watering place on Long Island Sound; and in the mail matter of that day came a letter with the Melbourne post-mark on it. It was for my wife, but I recognized Mr. Bascom's handwriting on the envelope, and opened it.
"He'll be singing a different tune, before I've done with him," said Hepsey. "Now you leave this to me I'll have a twitch on old Bascom's nose that'll make him think of something else than ejecting his rector. I'll go and visit with him a little this afternoon." "But Nelson said that he was in New York." "I know better than that," snorted Hepsey.
"Rag that's the only name the child says she has. But Mrs. Fisher writes they call her Rachel now. You didn't notice that when you read the letter, did you, Almira?" "No," said his wife, "I didn't have time to read more than part of it. Don't you remember, I hurried over to Grandma Bascom's with the little Pepper letters, and you said you'd talk it over with me when I got home?
When Aunt Lissy and Telly came home he was as composed as a rock and sat quietly puffing his pipe, with his feet on top of a chair and pointing towards the fire. "Were you lonesome, father?" asked Telly, who usually led conversation in the Terry home. "We stopped at Bascom's, and you know he never stops talking."
King made them hand her up to him, and at the risk of their both rolling out, he held her in his lap until the wagon, stopping at the door of Grandma Bascom's cottage, brought Joel bounding out with a whoop. "Jolly! where'd you get that, and where are you going?" all in one breath, as he swung himself up behind. "Deacon Brown brought it over just now," cried Polly.
A little of it is all right the boys understand that; but have you thought what it means to you and me if these blanked reformers get in, if a feller like Austen Vane is nominated?" That cold, hard glitter which we have seen was in Mr. Bascom's eyes. "You fellers have got the colic," was the remark of the arch-rebel. "Do you think old Hilary doesn't know what he's about?"
"I don't know but what you're right," he said. "Whether I go to Congress or the Fiji Islands may depend, eventually, upon Judge Bascom's liver." "Don't let it depend upon him," cautioned Barbara. "Make your own destiny. It was Napoleon, wasn't it, who prided himself upon making his own circumstances? What would you do or be if you could have your choice?"
He has a power of work in him. He has grit and energy. He is going down into the markets where men pay the price for these things that he has. He is going to fight men for that price which he knows his things are worth. Jeffrey's mother came out carrying a canvas satchel which she put on the sled under Cassius Bascom's feet. "Don't kick that, Catty," she warned, "Jeff's lunch is in it.
Bascom's, however, Robert handsomely remunerated the energetic constable for his valuable assistance, and after thanking him warmly for his active and cordial aid in our behalf, requested his company to the village. As they approached the store, where the stage-coach was in waiting, they found an unusual crowd awaiting their appearance.
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