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Updated: September 11, 2025
And what if the sealed envelope contains a text? In the morning, when Barton rose, the Senator was gone, and Aunt Deel handed the boy the sealed envelope. It was addressed: 'Master Barton Baynes; to be opened when he leaves home to go to school. That day soon came.
"Come right down off'm that mow this minute," said she. When we had come down and the dog had followed pulling the rope after him, Aunt Deel was pale with anger. "Go right home right home," said she to Amos. "Mr. Baynes said that he would take me up with the horses," said Amos. "Ye can use shank's horses ayes! they're good enough for you," Aunt Deel insisted, and so the boy went away in disgrace.
I said 'em," my uncle confessed. Aunt Deel turned to me and said: "Bart, you go right down to the barn and bring me a strap ayes! you bring me a strap right away." I walked slowly toward the barn. For the moment, I was sorry that I had told on my uncle. Scalding tears began to flow down my cheeks. I sat on the steps to the hay loft for a moment to collect my thoughts.
It shows us the way to be useful, and I guess the way o' usefulness is the way to heaven every time." "An' the way o' uselessness is the way to hell," Aunt Deel added. One evening in the early summer the great Silas Wright had come to our house from the village of Russell, where he had been training a company of militia.
We dressed with unusual care in the morning. After the chores were done and we had had our breakfast we went up-stairs to get ready. Aunt Deel called at the bottom of the stairs in a generous tone: "Peabody, if I was you I'd put on them butternut trousers ayes! an' yer new shirt an' hat an' necktie, but you must be awful careful of 'em ayes."
This man has eithered tired his horse or, lost himself in the Plains Some Indians are to hunt for him, The Situation of our last Camp Councill Bluff or Handssom Prarie appears to be a verry proper place for a Tradeing establishment & fortification The Soil of the Bluff well adapted for Brick, Great deel of timbers abov in the two Points. many other advantages of a Small nature. and I am told Senteral to Several nations Viz. one Days march from the Ottoe Town, one Day & a half from the great Pania village, 2 days from the Mahar Towns, two 1/4 Days from the Loups Village, & Convenient to the Countrey thro which Bands of the Soux hunt. perhaps no other Situation is as well Calculated for a Tradeing establishment.
Aunt Deel exclaimed wearily, with her hands over her eyes; "a boy has to have somethin' besides pigs an' cattle an' threats an' stones an' hoss dung an' cow manure to take up his mind." Uncle Peabody voiced my own feeling when he said: "I feel sorry, awful sorry, for that boy." We spent a silent afternoon gathering apples.
I wouldn't trust that man as fur as you could throw a bull by the tail." It was a cold clear night and when we reached home the new stove was snapping with the heat in its fire-box and the pudding puffing in the pot and old Shep dreaming in the chimney corner. Aunt Deel gave me a hug at the door. Shep barked and leaped to my shoulders. "Why, Bart!
Aunt Deel took the cloud off her head while Kate drew her mittens newly knitted of the best yarn. Then my aunt brought some stockings and a shawl from the tree and laid them on the lap of old Kate.
He couldn't make the right kind of a noise. Through all this I did not neglect his morals. If he said an improper word and I regret to say that he did now and then I promptly corrected him and reported his conduct to Aunt Deel, and if she was inclined to be too severe I took his part and, now and then, got snapped on the forehead for the vigor of my defense.
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