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Now, my old gran'ther used to say, 'Boys, says he, 'if ye want to lead a pleasant and prosperous life, ye must contrive allers to keep jest the happy medium between truth and falsehood. Now, that are's my doctrine." Aunt Lois knit severely. "Boys," said Sam, "don't you want ter go down with me and get a mug o' cider?" Of course we did, and took down a basket to bring up some apples to roast.
I went by the back door, like the fool I was, to get into the front road, and had a long round to make." "I shan't do so with my father. He don't read much, but he thinks. He's got a head, my father!" "There was fathers afore yours, lad! You needn't scorn yer gran'ther for your father!" "Scorn you, grandfather! God forbid! or, at least, " "You don't see what I'm drivin' at, sonny!
He lifted gran'ther out of the buckboard, carrying the unconscious little old body into the house without a glance backward at me. But when I crawled down to the ground, sobbing and digging my fists into my eyes, I felt mother's arms close around me. "'Oh, poor, naughty little Joey! she said. 'Mother's bad, dear little boy!" Professor Mallory stopped short.
"Well, I'm too old to go," muttered gran'ther Greene; "but I wa'n't older'n you are when I shouldered my firelock in 1812. I'm too old and stiff to go now." "How old were you, gran'ther, when you went to the war?" asked Thomas, with more moderation than he had exhibited before.
"What'll he do now? stay to hum and help his gran'ther?" "La! no. He's home just for a visit. He's got through his education at the Military Academy, and now he's an officer; out in the world; but he'll have to go somewhere and do his work." "I wonder what work they do hev' to do?" said Mrs. Salter; "there ain't nobody to fight now, is there?" "Fight the Injuns," said Mrs.
We paid for Peggy's dinner out of the dollar we had won on the race I say 'we, for by that time we were welded into one organism and we still had a dollar and a quarter left. 'While ye're about it, always go the whole hog! said gran'ther and we spent twenty minutes in laying out that money in trinkets for all the folks at home.
Somers, for gran'ther Greene had marched that march so many times that every member of the family knew it by heart. "There's one good thing about it, Tom," said John: "you have got a first-rate captain." "I'm thankful you are going with Captain Benson, for if there ever was a Christian in Pinchbrook, he is the man," added Mrs. Somers.
There was a teasing wind outside, with a flurry of snow, and she had acknowledged that the irritating weather made her as nervous as a witch. So she had taken to a job to quiet herself. "That clock?" she replied. "That was gran'ther Eli's. It give up strikin', an' then the hands stuck, an' I lost all patience with it. So I bought this nickel one, an' carted t' other off into the attic.
Come, let us rub out this naughty picture quickly, and mayhap God will take no notice this time." He ran across Gran'ther Wattles's portrait from brow to chin, covering it with foot-prints. "Besides," he went on as he trotted back and forth, "thou hast broken a commandment! Thou hast made a likeness of something that 's in the earth, and that 's Gran'ther Wattles!
At last the neighbors, roused by Gran'ther Wattles's frantic alarm, came hurrying across the pastures; but the distance was so great that the flames had died down and the danger was nearly over before they arrived. There was now time for explanations, and, surrounded by an eager and grim-visaged circle, Nancy and Dan told their story.
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