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That picture is still before my mind: the bare, shining floor, the unpainted table, the chimney-shelf, and a clock, the successful working of whose machinery demanded a crazily tilted attitude; a Bible on the shelf, too, and Grandma's spectacles lying askew. Then, a commodious lounge of exceedingly simple construction set up straight against the wall and extending the whole length of the room.
"He could stop here, couldn't he mother, till Teddy comes back from grandma's, and have his little room?" said Nellie, eagerly. "Then Pat and Kitty could quite make friends, and have such fun together." "That's not a bad notion, pet, if mother is willing." And Mrs. Dainton at once said "Yes," and so Dick found himself with home and food and friends, before he had been an hour in Ironboro'.
"Do get along, and don't bother me," cried Tom exasperated at the interruption. "Then tell us where she is. I 'm sure you know, for she was down here a little while ago," said Fanny. "Up in grandma's room, maybe." "Provoking thing! you knew it all the time, and did n't tell, just to plague us," scolded Maud.
The beach was flat and smooth, and its white sand was full of shells, and here and there a few bits of seaweed, and farther on some driftwood, and in the distance a pier, built out far into the ocean. "Did you ever see such a place?" cried Marjorie, in sheer delight. "Well, I was at the seashore last year," said King, "while you were at Grandma's." "But it wasn't as nice as this, was it?
Hardly knowing why he did it, he dragged the wool quilt off Grandma's bed and scooted across the floor in a flash. While Sally screamed with fright, he wrapped the thick folds tightly around her and hugged her close. When the grown folks came from work, just ahead of the school children, they found Jimmie and Sally white and shaky but safe.
They watched the departure of the others, then Elsie, taking a seat close at her grandma's side, asked for a Bible story. "I like so much better to hear you or papa or mamma read or tell it than to have to read it for myself," she said. "Yes, dear, and I always enjoy reading or telling those sweet stories to you," replied Mrs. Travilla, turning over the leaves of her Bible.
Yer mamma's name wos Harman afore she married yer papa, missy, and I ha' seen fur sure and certain in some old books at the house the name o' Daisy Wilson writ down as plain as could be, so maybe that wor yer grandma's name afore she married too." At these words the stranger caught Daisy up and kissed her. "I thought that little face could only belong to one related to Daisy Wilson," he said.
"Well, rather, my child! That's what the sand is there for. Kitty, you were at the seashore last summer. Did you dig in the sand?" "Yes, every day; and it was lovely. But this year I'm glad I'm going to Grandma's. It's more restful." They all laughed at Kitty's desire for rest, and Marjorie said: "I didn't have such a restful time at Grandma's.
"I's didn't hurt de bunny wabbit," said Trouble earnestly. "I's only make-be'ieve shoot him bang!" "I know you didn't hurt the bunny," observed Jan. "But you've hurt grandma's soda. Is there any left, Ted?" she asked, as her brother got out of the wagon to pick up the broken package. "A little," he answered. "There's some in the bottom. I guess we'll go back to the store and get more.
Slowly she sat down, and hesitatingly she said, with her eyes on the ground, and a very humble voice, "I 'll do my best, but I can't fill grandma's place, or give you any wise, good advice. I wish I could!" "You 'll do it better than any one else. Talk troubles mother, father has enough to think of without any of my worries.
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