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Another convulsive effort of the gray, and then Milton found himself in the road again, in the moonlight, where the apparently unwearied horse, with head out-thrust, nostril wide-blown and body squared, was trotting like a veteran on the track. The team was behind. "Stiddy, boy!" Milton soothed Marc down to a long, easy pace; then turned to Bettie, who had uncovered her face again.
Bob's Aunt Bettie and the two girls now came out to greet their guests. Introductions followed, and a few minutes later the party adjourned to the house, all except Bob, Tony and the banker. No amount of urging on the part of Bob's aunt could persuade the banker to leave the hen house, the construction of which interested him so much.
Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again. Everybody, with the usual rustic freedom, had remarks to make upon the situation. "Wal, Bettie, made a swop, hev yeh?" said Councill. "Hello, Milt; thought you had a girl down town."
"He'll be feeding his eyes on Molly, so he'll not even know he's eating my Kensington almond pudding with Thomas's old port in it," teased Aunt Bettie with a laugh as I went across the street with them. "There's going to be a regular epidemic of love affairs in Hillsboro, I do believe," she continued in her usual strain of sentimental speculation. "I saw Mr.
Bettie Ormsley, Artemisia Briggs, and Jennie Brady were among the girls he remembered in later years, and Mary Miller, who was nearly double his age and broke his heart by getting married one day, a thing he had not expected at all. Yet through it all he appears, like Tom Sawyer, to have had one faithful sweetheart. In the book it is Becky Thatcher in real life she was Laura Hawkins.
I'll have to take little Bettie to raise and teach her how to bit and bridle him," laughed Mother Mayberry, as they all rose and flocked to the front porch. In the Road in front of the house had congregated the entire school of small-fry, drawn by the mother lode, but too well trained to think of making any kind of interruption to the gathering.
I knew you'd never let Marc stand out in the snow," said Shephard as he sprang in beside Milton. "I knew you would. What's the news? Is Ed here t'night?" "Yeh-up. On deck with S'fye Kinney. It'll make him swear when he finds out who Bettie come with." "Let him. Are the Yohe boys here?" "Yep. They're alwiss on hand, like a sore thumb. Bill's been drinking, and is likely to give Ed trouble.
Well, Kelly led Bettie up from the corral and saddled and bridled her, and when Faye was ready to start I went out with him to give the horse a few lumps of sugar. She is a beautiful animal a bright bay in color with perfect head and dainty, expressive ears, and remarkably slender legs.
Don't you worry about the sheriff selling me out, for if I live I can easily make a go of it, and if I should die suddenly, I've a $10,000.00 life insurance policy in the Farmers' Mutual that will pay off the mortgage and leave something for Bettie besides.
"Your Aunt Bettie has invited us all to stay and have supper with you." "Yes," said Bob. "I'll be glad to." "Did that one cow give that much milk?" asked the banker's wife in astonishment, as she saw the huge pail Bob had gotten from Spot. "Yes," said Bob proudly. "Why, I had no idea one cow could give so much milk," she replied. "That's why," said Bob, "it doesn't pay to keep common cows.
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