44/60 We were tired and went down to the tavern and waited for him on its great porch. We passed a number of boys playing three-old-cat in the school yard. How I longed to be among them! I observed with satisfaction that the village boys did not make fun of me when I passed them as they did when I wore the petticoat trousers. We had supper with them at the tavern and started away in the dark with the Senator on the seat with us. He and my uncle began to talk about the tightness of money and the banking laws and I remember a remark of my uncle, for there was that in his tone which I could never forget: "We poor people are trusting you to look out for us--we poor people are trusting you to see that we get treated fair. |