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Then, as Algernon slowly got off the porch, she added impulsively: "I marvel just to see you walk, Algernon. You know so very much! You seem to me to be a veritable walking library." Algernon twisted his body uncomfortably and flushed. "I'd be more use to Winsted if I were a real one," he said, with a wistful sound in his voice that made Catherine look at him sharply.
I want my supper," and drooping over his tall brother's shoulders he fell asleep again. "Come around to-morrow afternoon early, Algernon," said Catherine, as he moved away with his burden. "I have a plan I want you to help me carry out. I know you'll like it. It's something nice for you and Winsted."
And in a minute four big male voices were shouting out the Boat Club song, Polly's soprano sweet and clear over the rest, while Frieda smiled encouragement over the edge of the robe in which she was wrapped to her chin. "We are the Winsted Boat Club, Dip the oar, dip the oar! We are the Winsted Boat Club, Push out from shore! "We are the Winsted Boat Club, Paddle light, paddle light!
Several others began to make them Geo. Mitchell and his brother in-law Rollin Atkins went into it, also Riley Whiting of Winsted. The business increased very rapidly between 1827 and 1837. During these ten years Jeromes and Barrow made more than any other company. The two towns of Plymouth and Bristol grew and improved very rapidly; many new houses were built, and every thing looked prosperous.
"As witness the nestle," put in Katherine. "So please tell us who he is," finished Madeline calmly. "The very idea of coming back to see us and then going off fussing with Winsted men!" Babe's tone was solemnly reproachful. But Mary was equal to the situation. "I haven't seen a Winsted man since I came," she declared.
"What's 'it'?" asked Archie innocently. "Why, the library. The Boat Club is going to see that Winsted has a public library." "Turn into Carnegies?" inquired Max, doing a sketch of Geraldine Winthrop on the margin of the secretary's book. "Not exactly. We haven't got our own dock built yet, and I don't think we are in a position to endow libraries. But I mean we can work and talk "
I am so eager about it that I can't keep my mind on anything else very long, so that's why I said 'Wide Awake Girls in Winsted' aloud. Isn't it an interesting story?" "Coincidences are always interesting," said Algernon. "And I think a great many things that go by the name of telepathy are nothing more. I'm keeping a record of peculiar coincidences that come under my notice.
And then a Mr. Tracy came in with his arms full of boxes, and said that his wife had been ill here at the hotel for some weeks, and she had amused herself during her convalescence with working on picture puzzles; now she was well and going away, she did not want to take them with her, and, as the Winsted Library had been a great help to her, she would like to give them these six or seven puzzles, to be loaned to people like books.
But to all their attentions Eleanor paid as little heed as she did to the persistent appeals of Paul West, a friend at Winsted College, a few miles away, that she should give up "slaving over something you don't care about and come over to our next dance."
At the conclusion of his remarks, the bill which he was advocating was voted upon and carried, and the House adjourned. Not until then did Barnum hand the telegram to his friend, William G. Coe, of Winsted, who immediately communicated the intelligence to several members.
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