And that reminds me that you, sir, and Mr.Horace Dinsmore, and that carpet-bagger of Fairview are entirely too liberal in the wages you pay." "That is altogether our own affair, sir," returned Mr.Dinsmore, haughtily.

"No man or set of men shall dictate to me as to how I spend my money.

What do you say, Travilla ?" "I take the same position; shall submit to no such infringement of my liberty to do as I will with my own." Elsie's eyes sparkled: she was proud of her husband and father.

Rose, too, smiled approval.
"Sounds very fine," growled Boyd, "but I say you've no right to put up the price of labor." "Papa," cried young Horace, straightening himself and casting a withering look upon Boyd, "I hope neither you nor Brother Edward will ever give in to them a single inch.

Such insolence!" "Let us change the subject," said old Mr.Dinsmore, "it is not an agreeable one." It so happened that a few days after this Messrs.