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I'm glad it flew the flume. It wasn't wuth twenty dollars. I got a noo grand pianner on the way here that I ordered in Noo York. I'll make this here one a weddin' present to you an' Jess. "And the soop'rintendent he writes out his check an' sends it down to Fresno to pay off the hundred an' fifty, an' when the weddin' it comes off he gives 'em a set o' chiny dishes besides.
Jest as they got near the camp the soop'rintendent he stopped like he'd struck a rotten plank an' stared at the house. "'Who's that singin'? says he. "'Miss. Hemenway, says Jud, proud-like. "'She's got an awful sweet voice, says the ol' man. 'It oughter be trained. She ought to go to a hot-house' or something like that. 'Conservatory? Yes, that's it.
"I had to skin up to Skyland nex' day. Jud says the soop'rintendent has to light out quicker'n he'd thought, but he didn't fergit about the pianner. Mis' Sneath was as easy as greased skids, but Mr. Sneath he didn't know exactly. He sends the pianner over to the warehouse there 'longside the flume an' has the men slap together a stout boat to run her down in; but at the las' minute he backs out.
"He claps his hands an' yells, 'Hooray! Give us another! "Then she saws along on, 'Gather at the River, an' chops inter, 'All Coons Looks Alike ter Me, in a way to stop the mill. "Her paw stan's aroun' all the while, tickled t' death an' smilin' all over. "'Wal, says the soop'rintendent, when Jess she stops ter git her wind, 'yer all right, Miss. Hemenway.
"'She's mighty anxious to l'arn, says Jud. 'She wants a pianner awful bad. "'Does she? says the soop'rintendent. 'She oughter have one. "When he come along to the house he says to Jess, who stuck her head outer the door an' looked kinder skeer'd-like, says he, 'I wish yeh'd sing a few songs fer me.
Jud worked so derned hard, up all night an' hangin' on ter the ropes he was let up an' down by till yeh'd think he was ready to drop, that the soop'rintendent said he'd make Jud flume boss when he got back from Noo York, where he was a-goin' fer a few months. The soop'rintendent that's Mr.
"'How about gittin' the meals? asts Hemenway. "'Wal, I'd set up, then, an' practise all night, says she. "'I'm afeard that 'u'd be pretty hard on yer paw, says Mr. Sneath, smilin'. 'Wal, Jud, we got ter be goin'. "So they gits inter their dude boat, an' Jess she skips along after 'em, an' jest as they's about to ontie she yells out to the soop'rintendent: "'Cain't I have it? Cain't I have it?
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