But I can't understand--Hello! there's Tidditt.

Asaph! Ase! S-s-t-t! Come here a minute." Mr.Tidditt, trembling with excitement, and shaking hands effusively with everyone he met, pushed his way up the aisle and bent over his friend.
"Say, Ase," whispered Josiah, "where's Whit?
Why ain't he on hand?
Nothin's happened, has it ?" "No," replied the town clerk.

"Everything seems to be all right.

I stopped in on the way along and Cy said not to wait; he'd be here on time.

He's been kind of off his feed for the last day or so, and I cal'late he didn't feel like hurryin'.