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Updated: May 8, 2025
"When you are out on the river, you are always safer to have a compass, for fogs may come up and you don't know where you are. I'm goin' up the river and I should be happy to show you where Wherren's wharf is, for you might as well hunt for a clam inside of an iceberg as to hunt for the wharf down here." "Thank you," said Aunt Stanshy. "Haven't I seen you before, marm?" "I dare say."
As Aunt Stanshy left this enterprising trader, she heard a vigorous summons: "Cash! cash!" At the supper-table that night Charlie asked, "Aunty, what do you suppose we are going to have now in our club? Something at our fair, I mean?" "A tornado." "No, a refreshment saloon; and the boys said they knew you would be in every day to buy something." "O dear!" groaned Aunt Stanshy, inwardly.
You are the best aunty in the world." "Am I, dear?" Aunt Stanshy was not very demonstrative, so that this "dear" was exceedingly precious to the warm-hearted Charlie, as was also a small hug that she gave him. While she was preparing his breakfast Charlie lay quietly in bed, and heard the sound of the rain on the slanting roof.
"Yes, yes!" exclaimed Charlie, "and we will pull him in." "We might do that, or at least help," said Aunt Stanshy, laughing. "Yesh hic pull him in," said the man in the dock. "We will fasten the rope about you, friend, and they'll draw on it, and perhaps you could hold on to it and draw yourself up, and I will shove you behind. Now, all, a good try!"
Amanda, who was washing the baby, and at the same time trying to keep in decent order six other children, gave them a hearty welcome, and showed that she did not mind them more than "flies." "Aunt Stanshy, how d'ye do? Are these all your children?" asked Amanda, laughing. "Yes," said Sid; "she is our mother to-day, and we are proud of her."
"Yes," said Aunt Stanshy, eagerly, "and fishing from the barn, just the same as before." "You are all kind, very kind. It does me good," and poor Tim actually smiled at the prospect. "What would my sister, who has clung to me, say? Wouldn't she be taken aback?" The tears were again in the drunkard's eyes. "Good deal of the man there yet," thought Will.
"You did splendidly," said Aunt Stanshy, aloud. "But I had to work for it! And now I want a light, which you may wonder I didn't get before; but I was so anxious to help that fellow, I put and run as soon as I heard him cry, and when I was in the dock I thought I might as well stick to him and work him into a safe place. But haven't you a door in the dock-side of your barn?"
To comfort him still further Aunt Stanshy allowed him to go after several boys and bring them to the barn, and it was in connection with this gathering that a new and important enterprise was suggested by one of the boys. "It's something that will pay," said Sid. Every body wanted to believe it and was willing to help it along. Soon Charlie came running from the barn into the kitchen.
So Charlie and Aunt Stanshy "played saloon." He wrote his order on a slip of paper, and left it on the table for her inspection while he went up stairs. Directing her spectacles toward it, she read, with some amazement, this request: "Please bring me for dinner, a pickle Aunt Stanshy, would be what you know nice to toast." "Toasted pickle!" exclaimed Aunt Stanshy, in alarm.
Will gave out soon after noon the first day. "Aunt Stanshy, I shall starve if I stay there," said Will, appearing at her pantry door; "and if I didn't starve, they would kill me with their abominable 'cream' that they make me buy, though they say it is at a reduced price." The restaurant was given up very soon.
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