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Updated: June 19, 2025
Again there was a little burst of song from below, and it lingered upon the ear of Reuben long after he had left the Elderkin homestead. The next day he was gone, to try his new taste of the world.
Jud Elderkin will be left in full charge here, and every scout is expected to look to him as the chief while I'm gone. Is that all understood, fellows?"
"Rotten luck!" exploded Jud Elderkin, as he looked helplessly around, as if to see whether a fellow could at least jump ashore; but since ten feet of that ooze lay on either side, he failed to get much encouragement. "Ahoy, Speedwell, you'll have to give us a lift!" called Paul, making a megaphone out of his hands. "Y-y-yes, t-t-turn about's f-f-fair p-p-play," added Bluff, waving his bugle.
You see, his mother, the old Widdah Elderkin, she was jest about the poorest, peakedest old body over to Sherburne, and went out to days' works; and Bill Elderkin he was all for books and larnin', and old Black Hoss John he thought it was just shiftlessness: but Miry she thought he was a genius; and she got it sot in her mind that he was goin' to be President o' the United States, or some sich.
John Elderkin, secretary of the Lotos Club, before you left New York?" "Then it just missed you. If I had known you were coming I would have kept it. It is beautiful, and will make you proud.
He had discovered a third figure running, some distance in the rear of the other scouts; and when he recognized this as Jud Elderkin, he knew that whatever might have happened to frighten the fishermen, at least none of them seemed to be in any immediate danger.
Now you mind, boys, when you grow up, ef you get to waitin' on a nice gal, and you're 'most a mind to speak up to her, don't you go and put it off, 'cause, ef you do, you may live to repent it. "Wal, you see, from the time that Bill Elderkin come and took the academy, I could see plain enough that it was time for me to hang up my fiddle.
The company which had been formed for the purchase of the Susquehannah lands, and which included such well- known men as Colonel Eliphalet Dyer and Jedediah Elderkin, therefore put off the undertaking until peace should come again. Meanwhile, people in Windham grew anxious about their own safety. If the Indians were in truth offended, would not the French now encourage them to take their revenge?
"How about the engine is she much damaged?" asked the foreman, as men set about raising the heavy Rescue No. 1. "Out of business for this trip, Elderkin. She'll never work again till she's gone down to the city for repairs," came the answer. A groan of dismay went up. "That settles the fate of the old Bradley house, then," declared many, as they saw the flames and smoke apparently increasing.
My own great grandfather, John Elderkin Waldo, said at Tolland, Connecticut, more than a century ago: "Times are hard with us in New England. They will never be any better until each farm laborer in Connecticut is willing to work all day for a sheep's head and pluck," just as they used to do before the red schoolhouses on the hills began to preach their doctrines of sedition and equality.
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