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Updated: June 15, 2025
I cal'late if Sam Hunniwell knew of that he'd say 'twas characteristic. . . . Hum. . . . Sho! . . . I read once about a feller that found where the great seal of England was hid and he used it to crack nuts with. I guess likely that feller must have been my great, great, great granddad." Major Grover looked surprised. "I've read that story," he said, "but I can't remember where."
I'm going to play polo next term, if I can get my granddad to stump up." "That's old Uncle James, isn't it? What's he like?" "Older than forty hills," said Val, "and always thinking he's going to be ruined." "I suppose my granddad and he were brothers." "I don't believe any of that old lot were sportsmen," said Val; "they must have worshipped money." "Mine didn't!" said Jolly warmly.
"Blow the horn, granddad blow the horn," screamed the woman. Her husband snatched the tin horn down from the wall, and put all his anger into a ringing blast. It was immediately answered by a shot from a distant hill. Still holding his game in his left hand, the Deacon pulled the $5 bill out of his pocket with his right, walked up to the porch, laid it at the woman's feet and put a stone on it.
Whittaker, your ma, over there a-sewin', and old Cap'n Cy your granddad snoozin' in that big armchair Why! why, whit! it's the very image of the chair he always set in!" Captain Cy laughed aloud. 'Twas up attic, all busted and crippled, but I had it made over like new.
Then granddad had a great idea. He saw his chance to kill every one of those infernal telltales where they sat. He studied on the size of that circle for a minute. Then he put the long barrel of that old gun between two swamp cedar stumps and bent on it carefully.
Well, granddad and I sat lookin' at our particular toad when along came a bumble-bee and lighted on a honeysuckle blossom right in front of the critter. The toad didn't take time to think it over, all he saw was a square meal, and his tongue flashed out and nailed that bumble-bee and snapped it into the pantry. In about a half second, though, there was a change.
"I don't quite get you," said Steve. "If you won't borrow the money " "I'll make dad sell out to you for eight thousand; he pockets one thousand and with the other seven your money-grabbing, pestiferous old granddad is paid off. Then you and I frame a deal between us " "Partners!" ejaculated Bill Royce. "Glory to be! Steve Packard an' Terry Temple pardners " "Don't you see?"
Yet he dropped his imperious tone, and waited, though impatiently, while the big pocket-book was drawn out. "What do you want with money on board the boat?" demanded the old gentleman. "Give me a sovereign, Granddad," cried Tom, controlling his impatience as best he might, with many a cross look at the wrinkled old face under the white hair.
They reached the Everett house just on the stroke of six, and were admitted by Ruth even before they rang the bell. Evidently she had been watching for them from the window. "Oh, I'm glad you are back all safe and sound. I worried so that I hardly slept, and Granddad woke me three or four times to know if you had come back. His orders were to have you go right up the minute you came.
"Oh, I dunno granddad was high-tempered, and this fellow was sort of smart Aleck; give him some lip about something and dared him to touch him. And quick's a wink granddad punched him. At least that's the way I always heard it. Prob'ly they'd both been taking too much hard cider. Bring me another dumplin', Aunt Dolcey, please."
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