Then all of us went out.
"We'll write to the boys, mother and I, and Shelley also," said father.
"I can't express myself just now.

This is a fine thing for all of you to do." Frank seemed to think so too, and looked rather puffed up, until Leon began telling about his horse.

When Frank found out that Laddie, who had not yet branched out for himself, had given Leon much more than any one of them had Shelley, he looked a little disappointed.

He explained how the piano cost eight hundred dollars, but by paying cash all at once, the man took seven hundred and fifty, so it only cost them one hundred and fifty a piece, and none of them felt it at all.
"Sometimes the clouds loom up pretty black, and mother and I scarcely know how to go on, save for the help of the Lord, but we certainly are blest with good children, children we can be proud of.

Your mother will like that instrument as well as Shelley, son," said father.
Frank went out and rang the bell, tolled it, and made a big noise like he always did when he came unexpectedly, and then sat on the back fence until he saw them coming, and went to meet them.