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Only I don't want to go down in the gold mine till Bab comes. I s'pose they'll put us down in a bucket, won't they? I want Uncle James to go with us." Jimmy-boy laughed and threw himself about in quite a gale. He often found his little sister very amusing. "Excuse me, Lucy," said he; "but I do think you're very ignorant!
He had a roll of paper and a pencil in one of his pockets and during the play he meant to add up the number of people present and find out how much money had been taken. "But Jimmy-boy, it won't be very much," said Edith. "This is an empty town, and so queer too. Something may happen at the last minute that will spoil the whole thing." She was right.
He waved his hand toward him and Nate waved in reply. At home Jimmy had not known Nate very well, for he was older than himself and in higher classes; but here among strangers Jimmy-boy was glad to see a familiar face. Mr. and Mrs. Pollard were with their son. Perhaps they had all come for the summer. Jimmy hoped so.
There were four white horses, and every horse sported two tiny American flags, one in each ear. "All aboard!" called out the driver, a brown-faced, broad-shouldered man, with a twinkle in his eye. "All aboard!" responded Mr. Sanford, echoed by Jimmy-boy.
He meant to restore the watch to its owner at dinner-time; but it was early, he was not going in yet. And there was Nate Pollard throwing up his cap and looking ready for a frolic. "I stump you to catch me!" said Nate. "Poh, I can catch you and not half try." Jimmy-boy was agile, Nate rather heavily built and clumsy.
Let's go farther up," said Jimmy-boy. They all climbed a little way and stood on a rock gazing down toward the dusty road. They could see the roofs of several houses, and Lucy asked why there was so much wire on them. "Oh, that's to hold the chimneys on," was Jimmy's reply. "How queer!" "Not queer at all. I've seen lots of chimneys tied on that way."
"Do people always sigh like that when they get to be sixteen?" asked Jimmy curiously. "You didn't sigh like that when you were only fifteen, Theodora. I wish you wouldn't. It makes me feel funny and it's not a nice kind of funniness either." "It's a bad habit I've got into lately," said Theodora, trying to laugh. "Old folks are dull sometimes, you know, Jimmy-boy."
He knows we're expecting them, Theodora, 'cause we wrote him a letter last week, and threw it up the chimney. And there'll be candy and nuts, of course, and Mother's gone to town to buy a turkey. I tell you we're going to have a ripping Christmas." "Well, don't use such slangy words about it, Jimmy-boy," sighed Theodora.
As she spoke, however, Jimmy was fingering the little chain to see if he could undo the clasp which held it to her dress. "There, I don't believe you could have got it off, Lucy, you didn't know how." "Why, I never tried papa fastened it on himself oh, Jimmy-boy, you will be so careful of it, now won't you?" For the watch lay in his hand, and she did not know how to get it back again.
The miners had to stop digging here because they lost track of the streak. But they'll find it again." "How do you know?" asked Jimmy-boy, who thought Nate was putting on too many airs. "Because Mr. Templeton said so. They've sent for Colonel Somebody from I forget where. He's a splendid mining engineer, great for finding lost veins. He'll be here next week and bring a lot of men."
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