I just looked sober and said: "'Well, boys, I haven't far to go and I reckon we'll all get there if we don't quit fooling an' 'tend to business.' "They agreed with me." Harry had not heard from home since he left it.

Abe had had a letter from Rutledge which gave him the news of Bim's elopement The letter had said: "I was over to Beardstown the day Kelso and McNeil got off the steamer.
I brought them home with me.

Kelso was bigger than his trouble.

Said that the ways of youth were a part of the great plan.

'Thorns! Thorns!' he said.