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"Come to count 'em over, Miry had the best fortin of the whole, as 'twas right and proper she should. Miry she was a sensible gal, and she invested her money well; and so, when Bill Elderkin got through his law-studies, he found a wife that could make a nice beginnin' with him. And that's the way, you see, they came to be doin' as well as they be.
Elderkin, he 's a deakin in the church, and a colonel in the malitia, and a s'lectman, and pretty much atop every thing there is goin' in Sherburne, and it all come of that 'are pitcher." "What pitcher?" we shouted in chorus. "Lordy massy! that 'are 's jest what I'm a goin' to tell you about; but, ye see, a feller's jest got to make a beginnin' to all things.
"Wal, old Black Hoss he wa'n't none too polite to Miry's beaux in gineral, but when Elderkin used to come to see her he was snarlier than a saw: he hadn't a good word for him noways; and he'd rake up the fire right before his face and eyes, and rattle about fastenin' up the windows, and tramp up to bed, and call down the chamber-stairs to Miry to go to bed, and was sort o' aggravatin' every way.
Three years back, the open, frank, brave front which Phil Elderkin wore had almost reached it; and when Rose had said, as she was wont to say, in her sisterly pride, "He's a noble fellow," there had been a little tingling of the heart in Adèle, which seemed to echo the words.
"Thunder, away off, Paul; guess we've all got explosions on the brain, because it gave me a start, too," said Jack, laughing. "And if a storm's coming along," observed Jud Elderkin, who seemed vastly pleased when he heard that his signalling had been so easily understood, "why, I reckon we ought not to think of pulling down our good tents, and getting out of here, till she's over."
Let's try it out and see how near we can come to the amount needed," said Jud Elderkin, briskly; starting to pass around slips of paper and a pencil. "Put down what you can hand over to the general fund, each fellow; and remember it means cash, to be delivered to-morrow, and not credit," he announced.
"It surely must have lowered several inches since I was here yesterday," he declared, in dismay. "Think we'll get through safely?" queried Jud Elderkin, anxiously. "I hope we may," replied the scout master; "but we've just got to creep along, and be mighty careful. You see, most of the bed of this canal is mud, and not sand.
1 Jud Elderkin, patrol leader. 2 Joe Clausin. 3 Andy Flinn. 4 Phil Towns. 5 Horace Poole. 6 Bob Tice. 7 Curly Baxter. 8 Cliff Jones, whose entire name was Clifford Ellsworth Fairfax Jones. 1 Frank Savage, patrol leader. 2 Billie Little, a very tall lad, and of course always called Little Billie. 3 Nat Smith. 4 Sandy Griggs. 5 Old Dan Tucker. 6 "Red" Conklin. 7 "Spider" Sexton. 8 "Gusty" Bellows.
Colonel Dyer!" answered by a guttural defiance of "Elderkin, too! Elderkin, too!" Next day the reason of it all came out: A pond having been emptied by drought, the frogs that had lived there emigrated by common consent to a ditch nearer the town, and on arriving there had apparently fought for its possession, for many lay dead on the bank.
I am going to Hartford this afternoon for a day or two, but as soon as I get back I will go to John Elderkin very privately and say: 'Remember the veteran and confer distinction upon him, for the sake of old times. Make me an honorary member and abolish the tax.
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