And then, too, we'll feel sure of his having plenty to eat.

There was almost too much on the table." "Not if the boarders had all been boys of Dab's age, and with his appetite.

Mrs.Myers is evidently accustomed to provide for them, I should say." So she was; and Ham and Miranda left Grantley next morning, after a very early breakfast; and, when the regular boarders came to theirs, they might have guessed at once that the "transient guests" had gone.

They even guessed it out loud at dinner and at supper.
Mrs.Myers had given Ham and his bride a world of interesting information about Grantley, and the things and people in it; but there was one thing she had forgotten or neglected to mention.

She had failed to tell them that the house she lived in, and the outlying farm belonging to it, and nearly all the house-hold effects it contained, were the property of Mr.Joseph Hart, having cost that gentleman very little more than a sharp lawsuit.