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"And another thing, mother," said Tom, hesitating a little, "do you think grandma would care if I spent part of that five dollars she gave me for a pair of skates for Harvey? He hasn't any skates at all, and I know he'd just love to have some!" "It is generous of you to think of it," said his mother, much pleased, "and you would still have two and a half for that little trip down to grandma's."
God wouldn't be a mind to. For don't you see, Jennie Vance, it's just like a camel. There can't anybody go through themselves unless God pulls 'em through." I don't know what Grandma Parlin would have thought if she had heard her words chopped up in this way; but it made very little difference to Jennie, who paid no attention at all.
After an autumn speciously benign came our season of cold and snow. It proved to be a season of unwonted severity, every weather expert in town, from Uncle William McCormick, who had kept a diary record for thirty years, to Grandma Steck, who had foretold its coming from a goose-bone, agreeing that the cold was most unusual.
But then she ought not to feel so. Why, there was time and time agin that I didn't git no letter from Bijonah Keeler when he was voyagin', and to be sure, they wasn't much better than nothin' when they did come; for pa" Grandma cast a calmly comprehensive glance at her unconscious mate "pa was a man that had a great many idees in general, but, when he set down to write a letter, somehow he seemed to consider that it wasn't no place for idees, a letter wasn't seemed as though he managed a'most a purpose not to get none in."
I wished that you'd gone down to the depot instead of me." "I had the best part of anybody," said Mrs. Hender, smiling and going on with her Saturday morning work. "I'm real glad they showed him proper respect," she added a moment afterward, but her voice faltered. "Why, you ain't been cryin', grandma?" asked the girl. "I guess you're tired. You had a real good time, now, didn't you?"
At first he tried to parry their questions, but his own ill-concealed distress only increased their alarm and rendered them the more persistent. "There is something serious ailing mamma," he said at length, "but Cousin Arthur hopes soon to be able to relieve her. The cure is somewhat doubtful, however, and that is what so distresses grandpa, grandma, and me.
"You stop talking so, Dotty. She was going to sweep everything into the rag-bag now wasn't she? And this money would have gone in too, if it hadn't been for my sharp eyes now wouldn't it?" "But it isn't yours, Jennie Vance because it don't belong to you." "Now, Dotty " "You go right off, Jennie Vance, and carry it to my grandma this minute." The tone of command irritated Jennie.
But when the last faint streaks of the dying day were fading, the more substantial citizens of the community began to gather at this spot of interest. They came from every direction. Every path seemed to lead to the arbor ridge. Some came in wagons, some in buggies, some on horseback, others walked. Everybody, almost, was there. Grandma Gray was there.
He seemed to be afraid of the water, and struggled against it with all his small strength. "O, Dandy, darling," said Susy, in a cooing voice, as if she were talking to a baby; "be a little man, Dandy; hold up his head, and let Susy wash it all cleany! O, he's Susie's birdie gay! What makes him roll up his eyes?" "Take him out quick, Susan," said grandma Read; "he will strangle."
The latter shook his head. "Don't think so. Haven't seen anybody here to meet anybody tonight." "Dear, oh dear," said poor Grandma. "This is just what I expected. They've never got Cyrus's telegram. Well, I might have known it. What shall I do?" "How far is it to your son's?" asked the dark man. "Only half a mile just over the hill there. But I'll never get there alone this dark night."
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