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Miss Matilda leaned over, and before Phil could grasp what was happening had pinned in the soft folds of her organdie gown the class pin, which was usually an enameled shield with a crown of laurel above it; but the center of Phil's shield was formed of small rubies and the crown of tiny diamonds. Phyllis turned scarlet with embarrassment, but Madge's eyes sparkled with delight.
It was evident that people expected Roscoe to make some reference to Phil's death in his sermon, or, at least, have a part of the service appropriate. By a singular chance the first morning lesson was David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan. Roscoe had a fine voice.
"He certainly is, because I'll tell you frankly that I never could have got Joe in alone. I was just about used up by the time we'd tried to drown each other out there." "We didn't know anything about it," explained Ossie, filling Phil's cup again unasked, "until someone happened to look from the Follow Me and saw you three out there. It was Tom Corwin, I think.
Anyhow, if we don't go on and count up to thirty you got to put the worm in her bonnet you said you would girls are no good, they get cold feet." Thus spurred, Amanda resumed the game until the coveted thirty lines were marked on the paper. Then, the goal reached, it was Phil's duty to find a tobacco worm. Supper at the Reist farmhouse was an ample meal.
Then they were hooked to the covered pole wagons and the work of transporting the village to the lot was begun. The show grounds were on an island, now, entirely surrounded by water. Some of the clowns had rigged up fishing outfits and sat on the bank in the rain trying to catch fish, though there probably was not a fish within a mile of them, according to Phil's idea.
When they were properly separated, there still remained about forty or fifty persons belonging to neither province; but, at Phil's suggestion, the captain paired them off to each division, man for man, until they were drawn up into two bodies. "Now" said he, "there you stand: let one-half of you drub the other out of the vessel, and the conquerors shall get their passage."
She reverted, finally, to her acquaintance with Falconer in New York, and finished with the words: "But I protest I have never been guilty of the worst the one thing I swear it, Philip; before God, I do!" If any load was taken from Phil's mind by this, he refrained from showing it. "I came in search of you," said he, in a low voice, "to see what I could do toward your happiness.
Although he had only been gone a few hours, they had done wonders; more than half of the group of trees they had chosen were already down, for they had "worked together, and worked with a will," as Mother Beaver had said. Phil's news was received with much concern, and Father Beaver hastily summoned a conference.
"Might as well save your firewood, boys," said Abe Blower. "You'll need it, to dry out by, arfter the rain stops." "If it ever does stop," grumbled Phil. Rain was Phil's great bugbear when he was on any kind of an outing. At midnight the rain was coming down as steadily as ever.
And, losing no jot of his haughty manner, he went over, and with one hand grasping Phil's, laid the other approvingly on the young man's shoulder. "What, have we rebels in our own family?" cried Mrs. Faringfield, whose horror at the fact gave her of a sudden the needful courage. "Madam, do your sentiments differ from mine?" asked her husband.
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