What Might Have Been Expected
ss in
speculation very profitable, it was really
ertain that it would never do for him to take his time, especially during school term, for that purpose. So, after consul
and it was also a wood station. Here the railroad company
act of forest land, and here Harry received permission to cut and take away all the wood that h
s. John Walker had a wagon, which was merely a set of wheels, with a board floor laid on the axletrees, and the use of this he contributed in consideratio
ness to collect the money at stated times, and divide the proceeds according to the rate agreed upon. Harry and his father
reek, on the village side, it was quite convenient for them. John Walker had a stable in which
roes who wished to cut wood for him, but he declined to hire any
could not cut wood, nor could he drive a team, bu
jist as easy as nuffin, early every mornin', and see dat dem boys does dere work, and don't chop down de w
rgument that the old man ought to be encouraged in making something toward his living, if he
dock made his appearance in the village, to demand his ten cents. Wh
m woods here, and I got to go all de way back home a
me to Hurry and declared that
matter?" a
gib up dat job
nted it bad enou
gib it up now,"
me your reasons for givi
silent for a few minu
op me up, ole wrapper an' all, and haul me off fur kindlin' wood. Dey say I was dry enough. An' dey needn't a made sich a fuss
d Harry, laughing, "I think
to Aunt Matilda's cabin, where, no doubt, he ate a
quite steadily, and sometimes they did not. Once every two weeks Harry rode over to the station,
e neighbors, who furnished the yarn and paid her a fair price. There were people who thought Mrs. Loudon did wrong in allowing her daughter to work for money
n, no matter how much money Harry made.
he paid to Aunt Matilda. She went over to the old woman's cabin ever
man, for her cabin soon began to look much neater,
s. The old woman was too stiff and rheumatic to keep at such work long at a time; but she was very proud of her whitewashing; and when she was tired of working at the insid
unt Matilda that if she persisted in surrounding her house with what look
da, in a mann
stance from the house, and the inclination to whitew
she said to herself, "dat it
h and a small brush to adorn the little birch-tree
and sometimes not more than two. Her parents intended christening her Minerva, but hearing the name of the well-known Hollywood Cemetery in Richmo
brought her only child, a wooden doll, which she was trying to teach to
and mind de house while I's gone,"
or a coat of whitewash; but she had not yet succeeded in convincing the doll of the impo
o come to the cabin with her, and who sometimes, when he got a
olly, "yer can't come in; dere's nobo
ar or did not care, for he s
home. Go 'way now, and tum bat in half an hour. Aun
y, Blinks trotted in, as
le course of his life, and it was quite right in him to bark and let her know what he thought of her conduct. Then Holly, in her fright, dropped her doll, and when Blinks approach
d a red freckled face, and a red bri
ut?" said he; and when he
og, he kicked him clear out of the door of the cabin. Then turning to Holly, he looked at her pretty much
ke h
oden child from the floor, she darted out of the door
e at the door. She had heard the barking and the s
the man, sh
r George! I
d the man. "Shake h
Mah'sr George," said the old woman; "a
It didn't suit me, down there. Fi
'r'aps!" said Aunt Mati
notice of her
your cabin, that I turned out of my way to see what the row was about. I'
Matilda; "he's dead. Mah
t that I was sneakin' around the village. Why, I'm mighty glad I s
emed to be getting into a bad humor. "There's others who kno
t meddling humbug, John
step toward the whitewash bucket; "jist you git out o' dat dar door!" and
-and then he left the cabin almost as qu
d Aunt Matilda, grimly, "he'd a gone on. Th
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