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Updated: May 6, 2025
We found that Corny had not been mistaken about her influence over her family, for the next morning, before we were done breakfast, Mr. Chipperton came around to see us. He was full of Nassau, and had made up his mind to go with us on Tuesday.
Corny stood in front, a little at one side, holding the crown, which she had padded and lined with red flannel. I took my place just before Mrs. Chipperton, facing the crowd. Rectus was at the flag-pole, near the front of the yard, holding the halyards in his hands, ready to haul.
Corny and her mother went down to the queen's house, and planned what they could get to fit up the place so that it would be a little more comfortable. Mrs. Chipperton must have added something to our eight dollars, for she and Corny came up into the town, and bought a lot of things, which made Poqua-dilla's best room look like another place. The rocking-chair was fixed up quite royally. Mrs.
It's at the western end of the town, and about a mile from the hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Chipperton were with us, and a lady from Chicago, and Mr. Burgan. The other yellow-legs went out riding with his wife, but I think he wanted to go with us. The fort is on the top of a hill, and a colored shoemaker is in command. He sits and cobbles all day, except when visitors come, and then he shows them around.
I asked, a good deal surprised, for I didn't know that Rectus was a property-owner. "Yes," said he; "my grandmother left them to me." "Are they right next to your father's lot, which Chipperton cut into?" "No, they're nowhere near it," said Rectus. I burst out laughing. "That letter wont do any good," I said. "You'll see," said Rectus, and he went off to mail it.
I would have much preferred to have no dinner. It was not necessary, any way. If I had had the authority, I would have stopped the whole thing. But it was Uncle Chipperton's affair, he paid for it, and I had no right to interfere with it. My father liked the matter even less than I did. He said it was a strange and unwarrantable performance on the part of Chipperton, and he did not understand it.
Then Mr. Chipperton stood up again, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted back to us: "Bring her right after us. If we get parted meet at Savannah!" He was certainly one of the coolest men in the world. To think at such a time of appointing a place to meet! And yet it was a good idea.
Chipperton, in his short green trousers and his thin striped coat, with his arms around his daughter, and the fishing-pole tightly clasped to her back, while the poor little fish dangled and bobbed at every fresh hug.
"And when do you leave here to catch that boat?" said Mr. Chipperton. "This afternoon, and stay all night at Pilatka." "Oh, father! father!" cried Corny, who had been standing with her eyes and ears wide open, all this time, "let's go! let's go!" "I believe I will," said Mr. Chipperton, "I believe I will. You say you have one more room. All right. I'll take it.
My father and mother were greatly amused at the way the thing had turned out, and very much pleased that Mr. Colbert and Uncle Chipperton had become reconciled to each other. "I thought he had a good heart," said my mother, softly, to me, looking over to Uncle Chipperton, who was telling my father, for the second time, just how I looked, as I sat alone at the long table.
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