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Kinzer, "You must keep this for Sundays and great occasions." When the morning came, Dabney Kinzer was a more than usually early riser, for he felt that he had waked up to a very important day. "Dabney," exclaimed his mother, when he came in to breakfast, "did I not tell you to put on your other suit?" "So I have, mother," replied Dab; "this is my other suit." "That!" exclaimed Mrs. Kinzer.
"Why, I saw you yesterday." "Yes, and I told you it was me. Can you read, Jenny?" "Why, what a question!" "Because, if you can't, it wont do me any good to wear a label." "Dabney Kinzer," exclaimed Jenny. "There's another thing you ought to get?" "What's that?" "Some good manners," said the little lady, snappishly. "Think, of your stopping me in the street to tell me I can't read."
There seemed to be no help for it; but that was the first point relating to the wedding, concerning which Ham Morris was permitted to have exactly his own way. His success made Dab Kinzer a fast friend of his for life, and that was something.
When the morning really came, sea and earth and sky seemed to be all the better for the trial they had been through, and the weather was all that Mrs. Kinzer had prophesied of it. The grass and trees were greener, and the bay seemed bluer; while the few clouds visible were very white and clean, as if all the storms had been recently washed out of them.
He must have things warm and nice, for the winters are cold up there." "I hasn't said he might go, Dick, put down dem eels, an' he hasn't said he'd go, Dick, take off your hat, an' his father " "Now, Glorianna," interrupted Mrs. Kinzer, calling Dick's mother by her first name, "I've known you these forty years, and do you s'pose I'm going to argue about it?
Before many minutes she had frankly told Annie all about it, and she could not have done that if she had not somehow felt that Annie's "sweetness" was genuine. The two girls were sure friends after that, much to the surprise of Mr. Dabney Kinzer. He, indeed, had been too much occupied in caring for all his guests, to pay especial attention to any one of them.
"He'll have books enough after he gets there," said Mrs. Kinzer decidedly. "I'll risk Dabney." "And they'll make him give up all his slang," added Samantha. "Yes, Sam; when I come back I'll talk nothing but Greek and Latin. I'm getting French now from Ford, and Hindu from Frank Harley. Then I know English, and slang, and Long-Islandish. Think of one man with seven first-rate languages!"
"They're her own boys, you know," added Mrs Foster, soothingly. "Well, mother," said Annie, "if it must be. But I'm sure they'll make us all very uncomfortable." "I can stand 'em for a week or so," said Ford, with the air of a man who can do or bear more than most people. "I'll get Dab Kinzer to help me entertain them." "Excellent," said Mr. Foster, "and I hope they will be civil to him."
Neither too large nor too small. I've only seen the outside of it, but every thing about it is in apple-pie order." There were plenty of questions to answer now, but Ford was every way equal to the occasion. Some of his answers might have made Mrs. Kinzer herself open her eyes, for the material for them had been obtained from her own neighbors.
"Robinson Crusoe." "Well, you might have worse books than they are, that's a fact, even for Sunday, though you ought to have better; but which of them do you and Dabney Kinzer mean to imitate to-morrow?" "Crusoe!" promptly responded Ford. "I see. And so you've got Dick Lee to go along as your man Friday." "He's Dab's man, not mine." "Oh! and you mean to be Crusoe number two?
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