Athalie
eyes on her baby she knew it was
matter with i
the matter. In point of fact he had been admiring the n
y make 'em," he concluded, pla
daughter with a curious, questioning expression. She had never gazed at any of her other children so uneasi
the office to the veranda, and occasionally entirely around the exterior of
He was a little man and mild, and he did not look as though he had been cr
and the brown earth grows green over night-when the hot spring sun draws vapours from the soil, an
his business partner, Archer B. Ledlie leisurely digging for bait in the barn-yard
resting one soil-incru
l," admitted
squirming angle-worm from the edge of the shallow
nquired Greensleev
r boy Jack seen a tr
, picked a budding sprig from a bush, nibbled it, and gravely seated himself on the edge of the horse-trough. He was
, resting one soil-incr
oachfully out across the salt meadows beyond the causeway. "The
hem," said Greens
ey'll git married an' go off some'rs. There ain't nothin
it and rolling it from one side of his small, thin-lipped mouth to the other. His thin little partner brooded in the sunshine.
Archie," he vol
n closed there ain't been no business except them s
commercial men
They can go to the other place next time," whic
come your kids, Pete. I guess I'l
four, Doris, three, and Catharine, two; and they broke into a run when they caught
re a new baby?" shouted Jack
boy?" shrilled Doris as she and baby Catharine
mildly. "You'd better go into
ontemptuously. "What d
dn't want any more girls around. Wh
elieve," he s
nd of name is tha
wanted it in case t
d frightfully, and they all instantly turned their eyes on him to discover if possible the solitary tooth wi
as soon as speech became possible. "Ai
erely found him unsympathetic, and therefo
is father: "I nearly caught a snake u
pes," said D
ittle Catharine, and her
s he, papa?"
e," replied Gree
ointment; dawning expectancy faded; it was the old,
ted to keep him for a pet. I wanted to know
Ledlie, "you pet him on
ha
n into 'em. You kill every one y
lay stunned after its headlong collision with
papa?" he a
eensleeve. "Mr. Ledlie knows
on't git no supper if you ain't cleaned up f
y said what anybod
e added; "your po
azing inquiringly up at the curtained window of the
round on the
" he s
el
what her
hal