3/20 It is better than Jefferson's March!" "Oh, a very good air to go to the gallows by!" snapped Uncle Edward. I was glad enough the night my mare Nelly threw me, coming home from Maria Erskine's wedding, to hear Bob Carter's voice behind me! And if Gideon Rand was a surly old heathen, he broke colts well, and he rolled tobacco well. We'll treat his son like a Christian." "And he'll repay you like a Turk!" broke out Major Edward. "I tell you it is bred in the bone--" "Mr.Rand is our guest," said Jacqueline, in a clear voice, from her place behind the coffee urn. |