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Wild shrieks of "It's father! It's father!" rent the air. "It's father!" "Fardie! Fardie, don't come up!" "Father, don't come up!" "Father, it's your present!" There was hasty scurrying of feet, racing to and fro, and further shrieks. Langshaw waited, smiling. It was evidently a "boughten" gift, then; the last had been a water pitcher, much needed in the household.
Adam is awfully tired this morning; he says, 'Eve, I've been workin' all night and I can't eat my breakfuss. Now, Mary, you be Cain, he's a little boy, and you must say, 'Fardie, play a little with me, please! and Fardie will say, 'Child'en should n't talk at the "
"My head feels awfully undressed without my curls, Mardie," she said. "I'm most afraid Fardie won't like the looks of me; do you think we ought to have asked him before we shingled me? He does despise unpretty things so!" "I think if we had asked him he would have said, 'Do as you think best."
Mother and I are engaged this evening, and you must stay upstairs with Reggie." "Werry tiresome," I heard Joyce say under her breath, and then she looked up pleadingly into her father's face. "Her is coming by-and-by, fardie?" "Oh, no doubt," stroking the dark hair; "but mother is driving at present. Now, say good-bye to me, Joyce, and you must give me a kiss, too, my boy. Good-evening, nurse."
A long pause followed this expression of opinion, this simple division of the human race, at the start, into sheep and goats. Then presently the untiring voice broke the stillness again. "Nathan and Hetty slid back when they went away from here. Did we backslide when we left Fardie and Jack?" "I'm not sure but that we did," said poor Susanna.
"She shall get her little broom and Fardie will help her," said Langshaw, catching the child up in his arms and holding the round little form closely to him before putting her down carefully on her stubby feet.
Sue's prayers had been fervent, but a trifle disjointed, covering all subjects from Jack and Fardie, to Grandma in heaven and Aunt Louisa at the farm, with special references to El-der-ess Abby and the Shaker cows, and petitions that the next day be fair so that she could see them milked.
It was a radiant July morning in Albion village, and when Sue first beheld it from the bedroom window at the Shaker Settlement, she had wished ardently that it might never, never grow dark, and that Jack and Fardie might be having the very same sunshine in Farnham.
"Maybe we'd better go back to where there's not so many Sisters and more mothers, so you 'll have somebody to climb togedder with?" "I could climb here, Sue, and so could you." "Yes, but who'll Fardie and Jack climb with? I wish they'd come and see us. Brother Ansel would make Fardie laugh, and Jack would love farmwork, and we'd all be so happy. I miss Fardie awfully!
Mother and child were very quiet. "More love, Sue!" said Susanna, clasping her closely. "More love, Mardie!" whispered the child, smiling and entering into the spirit of the salutation. "Let's turn our heads Farnham way! I'll take Jack and you take Fardie, and we'll say togedder, 'More love'; shall we?" "More love, John." "More love, Jack."
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