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"Oh, I must put her name on the parcels now," said Randy. Jotham produced a pencil and thinking that Molly might recognize her writing, Randy printed in large letters this legend: "For Mollie Wilson, from one who loves her." After viewing her work with satisfaction, Randy said,
But it seems there has been a Jotham in the family ever since the memory of man, each eldest son handing down his father's name to the next in descent, and Ernest's real name is Jotham Ernest of all the extraordinary combinations! His mother would add the latter name in spite of everything. Ernest behaved very well through the whole affair, and said he had no feeling about it all.
The numbers which you have sent me show that you are quite capable of filling the post of editor; and you and Ferguson can do the mechanical part. I think it will be a good chance for you. Write me at once whether there us any likelihood of your purchasing. "Your friend, "JOTHAM ANDERSON."
The instant the rifle was produced Hiram and Jotham vanished; and when the wood-chopper bent his eyes about him in surprise at receiving no answer, he discovered their retreating figures moving toward the village at a rate that sufficiently indicated that they had not only calculated the velocity of a rifle-bullet, but also its probable range.
Through such a scene we recover the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights, and indeed look back into almost limitless antiquity. Possibly, could we follow the story which is thus related, we might discover that this also drew its elemental incidents from sources as old as the times of Jotham and Nathan.
Father sent me a marked copy, and if you like I will read the article." "I should indeed like to hear it," said Aunt Marcia; "from what Randy says of him I think Timotheus must be an unique character." "He is truly an odd specimen," said Helen, "I cannot imagine what he would write." "Read it, do read it," said Randy, and Jotham read the following: "THORT.
"I ain't able to buy corn for them. They must work without it." "You only lose by such a foolish course," the old Squire said to him. But Jotham was not a man who could easily be convinced of his errors. All his affairs were going badly; arguing with him only made him impatient.
To a mind used to contemplating the succession of crops and seasons, all life with its multitudinous interplay of shapes and forms seemed passing shadows. Even men were like leaves that fall. Eugene was drawn to old Jotham as a filing to a magnet. His was just the type of mind that appealed to him, and Angela gained by the radiated glory of her father.
"Say, how about it?" began Jotham. "Could we be useful if we did manage to trot over there, Paul?" Andy demanded. "I'm sure we might," answered the scoutmaster, firmly; "and if we're going, why, the sooner we make a start the better. Seconds count when a house or barn is on fire. I feel pretty well rested, speaking for myself; and half a mile each way oughtn't to do us up.
She dreaded from what he had said that he would follow her to the city and renew the unwelcome association of his life with hers. Therefore she engaged heavy, blundering Jotham to deliver the note, giving him a dollar from her slender purse as a reward. He lost the note where it was never found, and stolidly concealed the fact lest he should lose the dollar.
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