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Livin'stone!"</i> he cried; then he recollected himself. "We was jest goin' ter Bunker Hill," he said jauntily. "Yes?" smiled Livingstone. "But your luncheon aren't you hungry? Come with me; I was just going to get mine." "But you I " Hezekiah paused and looked doubtingly at his wife. "Indeed, my dear Mrs. Warden, you'll say 'Yes, I know," urged Livingstone suavely.
Livin'stone say if he could see us now? Where'd he think our boastin' was about our bein' able ter enj'y ourselves? Come!" And once more he rose to his feet. This time he was not held back. The little woman at his side adjusted her bonnet, tilted up her chin, and in her turn rose to her feet. "Sure enough!" she quavered bravely. "Come, Hezekiah, we'll ask the way ter Bunker Hill."
Rutherford bein' so good to me, Miss Milly; an' won't you an' him be set up when you see Rutherford Livin'stone names onto a President of these States? I ain't never goin' to disgrace them names, that I ain't." But Milly, mindful of the prejudices of her relatives, and of the objections which she foresaw from both sides of the family, found it needful to decline the compliment.
"Ye'd best take yer fill of bein' out doors to-day." "Yes," said Daisy, pleadingly, "it's so nice and pleasant. Mamma, couldn't some of the servants take me out a little more? I don't want to go in yet." "Leave her along of me, Mis' Livin'stone," said the old man. "Me an' her'll take care of one another."
Now, I'll be named James Rutherford Livin'stone Washin'ton, an' stick to that till I get inter President polyticks; then I'll put the Livin'stone last, James Rutherford Washin'ton Livin'stone, so folks'll be sure I belong to you. Bill says folks can change their names, if they has a mind to, when they come twenty-one.
You remember," soothingly, for this was a sore point with the boy, "you remember that we know you only as Jim." "It's Livin'stone, Jim no, I mean James Rutherford Livin'stone," said the boy, decidedly. "I'm goin' to put in the Rutherford on account of Mr.
Then 'ave a Livin'stone Rouser." "Oh, shut up," said Dam, cursing the Bathos of Things and returning to the beginning of Lucille's letter.
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