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At the foot of the hill Teddy stopped the goat and Janet, taking Trouble with her, got out and walked back to the house. "What's the matter now?" asked Mrs. Martin from the porch where she had come out to get a little fresh air. "Ted's playing Wild West in the goat-wagon," explained Janet. "Oh, Ted! Don't be so rough!" begged his mother of her little son, who drove up just then.
Uncle Ted's friend, the President of Hardrington College, was in Yale in the '80's and made no senior society; Judge Marston of the Supreme Court dined with us the other night he didn't make anything; Dr. Hamlin, who is certainly one of the great physicians of the country, wasn't taken. I know a lot more. And look at some who've made things.
It required no great penetration upon Ted's part to see that I was weary of St. Peter's. 'Look here, mate, he said, late in the afternoon. 'I've got pretty near thirty bob left, and a real good swag. Why not come with me, an' we'll swag it outer this into Queensland? I drew a quick breath. It was an attractive offer for a boy in my position.
Ted's fair skin was tanned to a warm brown, and, clad in Indian clothes, save for his aureole of copper-coloured hair, so strong a contrast to the straight black locks of his Indian brothers, he could hardly be told from one of the island lads who roamed all day by wood and shore. They called him "Yakso pil chicamin," and all the village liked him.
George told the cabman, and then he got in and sat on Ted's knee, partly on Gerty's umbrella, and mostly on nothing. "You are good to me, George," ses Gerty, touching the back of 'is neck with the brim of her hat. "It ain't often I get a ride in a cab. All the time I was keeping company with Bob we never 'ad one once. I only wish I'd got the money to pay for it."
"Kiss your flying angel, Granny, before she flies away again." "Me! Me!" clamored Eric vociferously, hugging Ted's knees. "Me flying angel, too!" "Not much," objected Ted. "No angel about you. Too, too much solid flesh and bones. Kiss Granny, quick. I hear your parents approaching." Philip and Margery appeared on the threshold, seeking their obstreperous offspring.
Frankly I don't believe the thing contains any dynamite whatever but I would rather you handled the thing instead of myself. "Believe me, my dear Holiday, I am heartily sick, and sorry over the whole matter of Ted's expulsion. If we had not had his own word for it I should not have believed him guilty.
The river was responsible for the whole thing, for its swift current and foaming cascades had brought the mills, and the mills in turn had brought the village. Ted's father was a shipping clerk in one of the factories and his two older sisters were employed there also. Some day Ted himself expected to enter the great brick buildings, as the boys of the town usually did, and work his way up.
There was laughing and merriment with the feast, and when it was all over, the canoes floated away as they had come, into the sunset, which gilded all the sea to rosy, golden beauty. Ted's share of the potlatch was a beautiful blanket of Tanana's weaving, and he was delighted beyond measure. "You're a lucky boy, Ted," said his father.
And then he asked me what ideas I had about my future, and I told him, none. I also told him of Ted's visit and of his offer to me, and my refusal of it. 'Yes, he said, 'that was wise of you, I think; that certainly was best. In some countries now, in the Old World, one might advise you to stick to the country.
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