Ezekiel's boy, were full of fun and frolic. Swiss, Uncle Ike's dog, had grown old in the past five years, but the antics of the you

most dead" with the noise of them, and that, some da

d, remembering Mrs. Hawkins' complaint,

ad the room that Quincy occupied when he boarded with Ezekiel Pettingill. He was now eighty-o

and to learn that there had been no

as we do now, you wouldn't h

's that?"

erns the body; as we

u think you are able to go dow

disease, not the inf

e differen

I've been trying to get Mandy to let me live on sour milk, be

ould you ca

all the substitutes, and it's going to take me some time to decide

you favo

nderful works, but I can't help thinking that man deserves some credit for his thousands of years of labour. There's a man out in Chicago who has got up a religion that h

e. They are Faith and Hope. For them you have substituted Reason-not the reason of others, or

ome and made my wife and children happy. Instead, I became, virtually, a hermit, and for more than twen

o others. But he was drifting in a sea of doubt, and really wishing to live his life over again. S

much money

-"I gave my wife and children two-thirds of what I had. The rest I put into an an

ast life had been self-reliant, independent, impatient as regarded advice a

u." She went down stairs with a sinking heart. She loved her unc

pper's ready. I remember how I used to call out 'supper's ready' when y

dining room. "He's coming, bu

Alice as they followed Mrs

d Maude. "I've broug

that night for his sister. Ambrose's hand clutched the half-dollar tightly as he repeated the message to Quincy's satisfaction.

as if I was a born lady. And the pretty sister that he has, an' the beautiful wife. An' he's the Presi

old duties, occasionally repeating, "'How do you do, Mrs. Crowley

stammered, or stuttered, when excited, and the sight of Quincy an

as how you'd git round here so quick. But we're mighty glad to see 'em, ain't we, Mandy? I hope you're al

Ike could be wit

u call him?"

his legs to come

bounded up stairs, while Ma

in his arms and placed him in a bi

p and smiled a

re like old times,

med, "I'm not surprised that you stayed down here four months, Quincy, b

e fixed upon her, blushed prettily, "As my husband's residence here brought good to others as well as to my

eech, which Maude might think indicated that she was

ied Uncle Ike, "so

d to the parlour. Quincy

istance, to an easy chair in a farther corner. Quincy looked about the room. Five years had made little change. The old square piano was

ard any singers, except Dan, since you folks went a

mattered little if some of the keys refused to move, o

good singer?"

Hiram. "He's gre

"Some of them remind me of a person trying to laugh with

ve him in?"

Mandy. "He often drops in and helps

he's in love. I hope I'll

," remarked Uncle Ike. "You will not

loafed all my life and I'd re

and they're putting the dishes in the closet. He's co

ng, play something,

oguishly, as she seated herself and dash

iked that,"

and Maude acknowledged the applause t

. Crowley with her neat calico dress and white apron, did not look her forty-five

aid Mr. Sweeney to Maude, who of

key-I guess I

ney stru

e title?"

Mahan

e of my favourites. I often sing it to

such stories?" But Quincy was laughing quietl

eat expression, and, what is particularly desirable in

Mahan had an

t loved for to

lived, and on f

as smooth as fi

rthy, a gracel

work, such a l

he pig, as he pa

f the world, he

or

t pig in

Mahan used o

s full grown, I'

price I'll ge

ve his own, and, as the last note died away, Maude came in for her share of the applaus

the poor piggy

it soon he did

ght and was crac

was carried an

then for the F

at McCarthy was q

he priest, did th

tealing he told

rt symphony before the

oung McCarthy, t

ou do at the gre

there, at the ba

witness, and

l I do?" young M

be there at the

say to the W

old pig, for I

nt pig in

Mahan, plaze

full grown, just

price you'll gi

s, and 'cornering' his fellows, he will say he is willing to give it back, for he has no further use for

is late-for the country, but, fortun

room and told him he would come some day a

ol, scented air. When they reached their own room, after seeing Maude

to cheer him up, Quincy

won't forget to perform it

y-w

I told him to come to the State House and I would see that he had proper treatment.

agree with you that the real value of money i