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"And what brings you here, anyway? Business?" "Just a bit of business," answered Stoner. "Nothing much, though only a call to make, later on. I'm stopping the night, though." "Wish we could ha' put you up here, old sport!" said Myler, ruefully. "But we don't live in a castle, yet. All full here! unless you'd like a shakedown on the kitchen table, or in the wood-shed.
His father was nowhere to be seen; but he spent only a moment in looking for him, and then darted out into the wood-shed. Filling a bushel basket with wood, chips, and shavings, he carried it into the big parlor, and lighted a tremendous fire in the Franklin stove. Another was made in the large corner apartment up stairs, with two bed-rooms en suite, which he always called Mr. Hamilton's room.
"Oh, I don't say as the tent Reddy's got his eye on is a reg'lar one like a real circus has," said Bob slowly and candidly, as he began to draw on the side of the wood-shed a picture of what he probably intended should represent a horse; "but he knows how he can rig one up that'll be big enough, an' look stavin'."
"Well, that a'n't nothin' to hender. I'll jest fetch out them old boards out of the wood-shed, and knock up a little sty right off, daown by the end o' the shed, and you ken keep your swill that I've hed before, and it'll come handy." "But pigs are so dirty!"
"Go out and bring in some wood for the stove," said Mrs. Watkins, sharply; "the air will do you good." Johnny went out, and, in a few minutes, felt revived. Looking about, he soon found the wood-shed; there was plenty of wood, but none cut of a suitable length; it was all in cord sticks.
"Didn't you go out?" asked the clerk. "I was going, Gum, but stepped out first to collect my basins, and then the rain came down. I had to shelter under the wood-shed, it was peppering so." "Collect your basins!" interjected Mrs. Jones. "Where from?" "I put them out with scraps for the cats."
Fleda went too, linking her arm in his and bearing affectionately upon it, a sort of tacit saying that they would sink or swim together. Hugh understood it perfectly. "I am very sorry you have to do it, dear Hugh Oh that wood-shed! If it had only been made! "Never mind can't help it now we shall get through the winter by and by."
And she laughed outright, disclosing two exquisite rows of pearls, her soft, dark eyes half closing mischievously as she entered my door eyes as black as her hair, which she wore in a bandeau. The tonneau growled to its improvised garage under the wood-shed.
The information she had received did not cause Jill any great apprehension. It was hardly likely that her new duties would include the stoking of the furnace. That and cooking appeared to be the only acts about the house which were outside her present sphere of usefulness. "He killed a rat once in the wood-shed with an axe," said Tibby chattily. "Yessir! Chopped it right in half, and it bled!"
"Aweel, gin I must, I must," said the old man, with a twinkle in his eye, for if there was one thing he enjoyed above another, it was to see Marjory sitting wide-eyed and open-mouthed drinking in some tale of olden times. "That's a good Peter. Now, remember, the first wet day that comes you're engaged to us in the wood-shed. Good-night." It was a beautiful still evening.
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