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Show 2H2 TilE ADVENTURES OIJ' IIUCJ{LEBERlll~ l''I~Y~Y. "Ju:t lo kat it a. 1ninnt n1Hl nwybc you can sec. J lain't y nr unci<: obl eg d to get along l1o1n to England as fa .·t a.· th y can? And do y u r )ckon thcy\1 he 1nean nongh to <ro off and l ave you to go all that jonrn y by y ur el n·s ~ Yon knowT they'll waiL for you. ~o fnr, so good. l~our uncl<> J[arvcy's apr nch r, ain't he? y ·cry \rell, th n; is a jJI'ecu.:f1el' going to deceive a Htcanlboat cl 'r k ? i.' he going to clt ..'CC'i n' a h i]J-clerk ?- · a. to get t he1n to ] 't, 1\li 1\Ia ry .Tane rro b a board ? N O\Y yaH know he ain't. \\That 1.u ill he' t 1._1, ilw11 ? \rhy, h ·n :ay, 'If· a. gr at pity, hut 1ny church lnaUPr:-; has got to g t alona the be t way th y can; for 1ny niece ha.· been exp .: cl to th dreadful pluribu:-unum nlunlp:-:, aml :-;o il'.' my bound n duty to set down here and \\-ait t ht\ t.ln·<'<' 1nonth it take to sho\v on her if sh 's got it.' But ll<'Yer 1niu<l, if you think it's b t to tell your Unde J[arvcy · "Shuck·, and tay fooling around h r when \Ve could all h<' having good ti1n in England \rhn~t w was wait inrr to fi11<l out whether 1\Iary Jan · got it or not? \Yby, you ialk likt> a 1nuggin ·.'' "~Tell, anyway, nwyb you heHcr tell son1e of thP nei<rhb h urs." "Li ten at that, now. 1\nl do b 'at, <lll, for natural st upjdncss. Can't you ee tha.L lhey'<l go and tell? Th 'l'. aiu'L no way but just to not tell anybody at all." " ~T e lJ , mayb you, r e n•g h t-yc , I J• n dge you a1·e right .. , "Bu~ I reckon we ought to tell l Tncl IIarYey ·h ,·:-;gone.' out a wlule, anyway, ... o he won't be un a. y about h er? ., "Yes, 1\Ii s 1\lary .Jane she want <l you to do thaL f-'he .say~, 'Tell the1n to give Uncle Harvey and William 1ny love and a k1 s, and say I've run over the river to. ee ]\fr.-1\Ir.-what iH the name of that rich farnily your nne 1 Peter used to think ~0 much of ?-I mean the one that " "'Vhy, you must mean the Apthor_p., ain't it?" TilE OPPOSITION Lil{E. 203 " Of course ; both r thc1n kind of nan1 , a b (ly can't vcr · em to r 1nemb r th 'ln, half th ti1n , m h w. l'" e. , h \ :ni<l, :ay ·he ha run OY r } n· to a ,k th ' Apth rp. to be :ur and co1n t the auction and buy thi, hou: , b cau e ·he THE A"GCTION. allow ,cl h r uncle P ter would ruther th y had it than anybody el:e; and he' going to ·ti ·k to them till they ay they'll con1 , and then, if she ain't too tired, h e's coining hon1 ; and if ·he i., she'll be home in the morning anyway. h aid, d n't say nothing about the Proctor ·, but only about the Apthorps- |
