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"I should think it 's enough to have a flag-raisin' without a-askin' what it is for!" said she. "What does trees grow for? What does anything in natur' act the way it does for?" I, ever safe anchored behind Lunette's championship, looked out securely at the derelict Tyson, to see if he could answer. He could not, but was abashed.
It might have troubled the casual observer at first to discover, in the variety of Lunette's official capacity, which was post-office and which was sand-peeps, so agreeably and informally did these two elements combine in her surroundings. "Mis' Pharo Kobbe!" she called. That lady, thus summarily summoned, sprang forward from a cloud of witnesses, as choice and flattered assistant.
I followed his sad gaze to the west, and we sighed in unison. "By the way, how 's your show stock gittin' along, major?" "My show stock?" "Why, sartin; we thinks all the more on ye, ef that c'd be, for havin' some business. Ye see, the way my woman found it out, she runs over to Lunette's every mail day and helps her sort the mail, 'nd she said all the letters 't come directed to 'Mr.
"I told 'er 't she'd got me to set the trap, 'nd she orter, 't least, keep the crows off'n the clams; but she went over to Lunette's and borrowed the book, 'n' she's settin' there in the graves, where Miss Pray can't see her, readin' it." I sighed to think how early, among his other trials, Wesley was learning the frailties of the lovable sex.
"Lunette's man-boarder there, the husban', he 's editor of a noos-sheet, and gits a thousand dollars a year 'tain't believable, but it's what they say an' he thinks he knows it all. He got Fluke to take him out in his boat; he began to direc' Fluke how to do this, an' how to do that, and squallin' and flyin' at him. Fluke sailed back with him and sot him ashore.
"Here," continued Lunette, "'s major's business letters, looks as though they'd been a-settin' in the dentist's chair, havin' all the old stumps extracted for a whole set of uppers and unders!" Lunette's comparison, though tragic, was not inapt.
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