I am sure you will not find much in it to interest you.

My mother tells me you are to make but a very short stay.

I don't wonder you are anxious to get back, sir--" Mrs.Chapman was at this time in a state of great alarm lest Mattie should say something not strictly within the rules of propriety.

She shook her head and cast a significant glance at Mattie, then raised the fore-finger of her right hand to her lips, admonishingly.
"My daughter has not heard of the great enterprise yourself and my dear husband are engaged in--" [Illustration: "I am so glad to make you my compliments!" said Mr.
Gusher, making one of his best bows.

Page 128.] "Why, yes, mother, I have," interrupted Mattie; "did'nt Mr.Toodleburg and father go up the river to buy up all the vegetables for the New York market ?" "Oh, horrors! horrors! Why, my daughter, what put such a strange thought in your head?
Think of it.