Take care of yourself and go often to see Mrs.Wright and obey your captain and remember me to your aunt and uncle." "See that you keep coming, my good boy," said the President as he gave me his hand, with playful reference, no doubt, to Mr.Wright's remark that I was a coming man.
"Bart, I've some wheat to be threshed in the barn on the back lot," said the Senator as I was leaving them.

"You can do it Saturdays, if you care to, at a shilling an hour.

Stack the straw out-of-doors until you've finished then put it back in the bay.

Winnow the wheat carefully and sack it and bring it down to the granary and I'll settle with you when I return." I remember that a number of men who worked in Grimshaw's saw-mill were passing as he spoke.
"Yes, sir," I answered, much elated by the prospect of earning money.
I left with a feeling of keen disappointment that I was to see so little of my distinguished friend and a thought of the imperious errands of men which put the broad reaches of the earth between friend and friend.
I remember repeating to myself the words of the Senator which began: "You may look for me here soon after the close of the session," in the tone in which he had said them.

As of old, I admired and tried to imitate his dignity of speech and bearing.
When I returned from the mill they were gone.
The examination of Amos was set down for Monday and the people of the village were stirred and shaken by wildest rumors regarding the evidence to be adduced.