"I can get along very well by myself.

The load is not a heavy one." "You're an amazin' lucky feller, Davy," continued Dan.

"What you been a doin' to Silas, to make him speak so kind to us poor folks ?" "I haven't done anything to him.

I don't know how to account for it, any more than you do." "What's the matter, now?
Forgot something ?" asked Dan, as his brother suddenly stopped and looked toward the landing, as if he had half a mind to turn around and go back there.
Yes, David had forgotten something, and it was very important too, he thought.

He knew that Dan was always on the lookout for a chance to make a penny without work, and David was afraid that he might be tempted to repeat the trick which he and his father had played upon Don and Bert with so much success.
It would be a very easy matter for Dan to make up some plausible story to tell the grocer, and perhaps on the strength of his brother's almost unlimited credit, he might be able to obtain a few little articles of which he stood in need.