-- I can get capital ones at Asphodel -- really stylish ones -- for five dollars; -- boots that would last me handsome a great while; and that's a third less than I should have to give anywhere else, -- for such boots.

You see I shall want them at Little River -- I shall be thrown more in the way of seeing people -- there's a great deal of society there.

I don't see that I can get along without them." His mother was going on with her ironing.
"I don't know," she said, as her iron made passes up and down, -- "I don't know whether you can have them or not." "I know," said Winthrop.

"But I don't see the sense of getting them at Asphodel." "Because I tell you they are two dollars and a half cheaper." "And how much more will it cost you to go round by the way of Asphodel than to go straight to Little River ?" "I don't know," said the other, half careless, half displeased; -- "I really haven't calculated." "Well, if you can get them for five dollars," said Winthrop, "you shall have them.

I can lend you so much as that." "How did you come by it ?" said his brother looking at him curiously.
"I didn't come by it at all." "Where did it come from ?" "Made it." "How ?" "What do you want to know for?
I beat it out of some raw flax." "And carried it over the mountain, through the snow, winter nights," added his mother.
"You didn't know you were doing it for me," Rufus said laughing as he took the money his brother handed him.