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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Aunt Luceba," said Isabel suddenly, "was aunt Eliza hard to live with? Did you and aunt Mary Ellen have to toe the mark?" "Don't you say one word," answered her aunt hastily. "That's all past an' gone. There ain't no way of settlin' old scores but buryin' of 'em. She was older 'n we were, an' on'y a step-sister, arter all. We must think o' that.
I forget just what important problem we was settlin'. But it must have been something weighty and serious. Millions at stake, most likely. Thousands anyway. Or it might have been when we should start the Saturday half-holidays. All I remember is that we was grouped around the big mahogany desk; Old Hickory in the middle chewin' away at the last three inches of a Cassadora; Mr.
Stay and eat with us. We've got elk meat." "That's what I'm after for camp," said McLean. "All of us is out on a hunt to-day except him." "How many are yu' now?" "The whole six." "Makin' money?" "Oh, some days the gold washes out good in the pan, and others it's that fine it'll float off without settlin'." "So Hank ain't huntin' to-day?"
"Sure there's no settlin' any such a thing, and for the matter of goin', the young people often enough get their turn as fast as anybody else. It's meself," he said, "might be sooner than you bringin' news of yous all, and Con's ould caubeen, and everythin' else to Heaven the way he sez."
The business of settlin' the estate took quite a spell, but he didn't hurry any. He said "the nurse wuz good as gold, she would take good care of The Little Maid. She wrote to him every day;" and so she did, the hussy, all through that dretful time to come. Oh dear me! oh dear suz!
One of these was my bovine friend, my neighbour at the funeral banquet, who now accosted me as I struggled with a biscuit. "'So you've got over your hurry. Glad to find ye settlin' down so quick to our hearty ways. "He shook hands with the widow and sauntered out. Ten more minutes passed and now there were left only the widow herself and a trio of elderly men, all silent.
However, I said nothing; thinkin they were settlin some private business thegither, and, oot o' guid nature, wad rather wait a minute or twa than interrupt them. But my waiting wasna lang. Before I had been an instant in the office, ane o' the men cam roun to whar I was stan'in, and, lookin me fiercely in the face, said "What's your name, sir, if you please?"
He comes in smilin' and chirky, though, slaps me chummy on the shoulder, and remarks cordial: "Well, my trusty coworker in well doing, I have come to report progress." "Shoot it, then," says I, settlin' back in my chair. "You will be surprised," he goes on, "to learn who is first to benefit by my vicarious philanthropy." "Your which?" says I.
"I warrant," Tibbie Birse said one day in my hearing, "'at there's some leddie in London he's thinkin' o'. Ay, he's been a guid laddie to ye, but i' the course o' nature he'll be settlin' dune soon." Jess did not answer, but she was a picture of woe. "Ye're lettin' what Tibbie Birse said lie on yer mind," Leeby remarked, when Tibbie was gone. "What can it maiter what she thinks?"
I kind o' hate to leave myself, but at my age, you know, Duke, a man's got to begin to think of marryin' and settlin' down and fixin' him up a home, as I've said before." "Many a time before, old feller, so many times I've got it down by heart."
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