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He knew that he had only himself to depend upon, and he determined to make the most of himself, a resolution which is the secret of success in nine cases out of ten. "Dick," said Fosdick, one evening, after they had completed their studies, "I think you'll have to get another teacher soon." "Why?" asked Dick, in some surprise. "Have you been offered a more loocrative position?"
Boys who have formed so good a habit of saving can be depended upon. I will get the room ready for you, and you may bring your trunks when you please. My hours are, breakfast at seven, lunch at half-past twelve, and dinner at six." "We shan't be able to come to lunch," said Fosdick. "Our stores are too far off."
Pawle's room, and bending down to him, whispered a few words which evidently occasioned him great surprise. "At once!" he said. "Bring them straight in, Parkinson. God bless me!" he exclaimed, turning to Viner. "Here are the two men in question Fosdick and Stephens! Saw our name in the paper as Ashton's solicitors and want to see me urgently."
"Say, are you going altogether dippy?" growled Ben. "Why, that little mare will run away from you as if Hatrack was tied to a post." "Reckon so? Well, maybe I want to lose Hatrack, an' maybe all I want is ter capture thet magpie pony." "Oh, what a lovely pony!" Stella Fosdick had ridden into camp, and her exclamation of admiration for the magpie pony drew the attention of the boys to her.
"You haven't any of you gents seen a pearl-handled knife, have you?" he asked. "No," said Fosdick; "have you lost one?" "Yes," said Travis, with unblushing falsehood. "I left it on my bureau a day or two since. I've missed one or two other little matters. Bridget don't look to me any too honest. Likely she's got 'em." "What are you goin' to do about it?" said Dick.
"My friend Horace Greeley told me the other day that he'd get me to take his place now and then when he was off makin' speeches if my edication hadn't been neglected." "I must find a good piece for you to begin on," said Fosdick, looking over the paper. "Find an easy one," said Dick, "with words of one story." Fosdick at length found a piece which he thought would answer.
"Oh! . . . And the idea that perhaps Mrs. Fosdick and I might be slightly interested didn't occur to you?" "Why, yes, sir, it did. But, but we thought it best not to tell you until later." "Perhaps the suspicion that we might not be overjoyed by the news had a little weight with you, eh? Possibly that helped to delay the er announcement?" "No, sir, I I don't think it did." "Oh, don't you!
"I never want to hear Joanna laughed about," she said anxiously. "Nor I," answered Mrs. Fosdick reassuringly. "She was crossed in love, that was all the matter to begin with; but as I look back, I can see that Joanna was one doomed from the first to fall into a melancholy. She retired from the world for good an' all, though she was a well-off woman.
"Perhaps," said Fosdick, "it was on account of his great respect for General Washington and the Emperor Napoleon." "What would the great Washington say if he could see his coat now?" said Frank. "When I wore it," said Dick, "I was sorry he was so great, 'cause it prevented his clothes fitting me."
Her father was busy all day fishin' or clammin'; he was one o' the pleasantest men in the world, but Joanna's mother had the grim streak, and never knew what 'twas to be happy. The first minute my eyes fell upon Joanna's face that day I saw how she had grown to look like Mis' Todd. 'Twas the mother right over again." "Oh dear me!" said Mrs. Fosdick. "Joanna had done one thing very pretty.
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