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Joyce helped Grandma to wash the dishes and tidy the house, and Don followed close at Grandpa's heels as he did his morning's work about the farm. He felt very grown-up indeed when a neighbor came by, and Grandpa told him he had a "new hand." After dinner, Grandma settled down for her afternoon's nap. Grandpa went to help a neighbor with some work, and so the children were left alone.
"I don't think there will be any on them," said Fleda; "Mr. Didenhover has been here lately with the men getting in the coin, I guess they have cleared the trees." "Who is Mr. Didenhover?" "He is grandpa's man." "Why didn't you bid Mr. Didenhover let the nuts alone?" "O he wouldn't mind if he was told," said Fleda. "He does everything just as he has a mind to, and nobody can hinder him.
Grandpa's other daughter, Mother's sister, Hattie, lives here and keeps house for Grandpa. She has a little boy named Lester, six years old; and her husband is dead. They were away for what they called a week-end when we came, but they got here a little after we did Monday afternoon; and they're lovely, too.
They forgot all about the snow people, except to tell Daddy and Mother Bunker about Grandpa's funny trick, and, a little later, they were in the big sled filled with straw, riding over the snow. Merrily jingled the bells as over the drifts the horses pranced. Down the road they went to the store in Tarrington, where Grandpa Ford bought the things Grandma had sent him after.
When they reached the station Grandpa bought the tickets, checked the little trunk, and gave the children a story book to read on the train. Dear Grandpa and Grandma! They always knew just what to do to make the children happy. As the train whistled in the distance, Don caught Grandpa's hand and held it tight. Joyce threw her arms around Grandma and whispered, "Dear Grandma, I love you!
She did not know what to do, and nobody else did. Grandpa Perry came over with three sticks of twisted red and white peppermint candy, and three of barley. He caught hold of Willy and swung him on to his knee. He was a fleshy, jolly man. "Now, sir," said he, "let's strike a bargain I'll give you these six whole sticks of candy for your supper, and you tell me what you did with Grandpa's coat."
A pause, and a light sigh, which did not reach the listener. "But we're at grandpa's now," finished the child's voice. Eloise's breaths came long and deep drawn, and she stood motionless, her eyes hidden. Jewel looked up as she heard a knock. Sarah had made the bed and gone. Who could this be? At her "Come in," Eloise entered the room. The child's face brightened questioningly.
The silent privates were moving their feet uneasily and wondering how long they were to wait. The captain said, "Please won't you tell me?" Then this girl's voice began in stricken tones half coherent, and amid violent sobbing: "It was grandpa's. He he he said he was going to shoot anybody who came in here he didn't care if there were thousands of 'em.
Why," sez I, "Blandina, you seem to rob the cradle and the grave for objects of affection." "Yes, I did love Billy with perfect devotion till I found that my affection wuz driven back like a dove from the rest it fain would made in his youthful heart, and now it has settled down upon his grandpa's bosom. Mr. Huff needs a companion, Aunt Samantha.
During one of my first trips to town, Jakie and I were standing by grandpa's shop on the east side of the plaza, when suddenly those bells rang out clear and sweet, and we saw the believing glide out of their homes in every direction and wend their way to the church.
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