CHAPTER XXV.
PROFITS AND PROJECTS.
The next morning, Harry was up quite early, and after having eaten a very plain breakfast, which Aunt Judy prepared for him, he ran down to the creek to see what chance there was for business.
There seemed to be a very good chance, for the creek had not fallen, that was certain.

If there was any change at all, the water seemed a little higher than it was before.
Before long, Harvey arrived on the other side, accompanied by Tom Selden and Wilson Ogden, who were very anxious to see how matters would progress, now that there was some real work to do.
The boys sent messages and greetings backward and forward to each other for about an hour, and then old Miles arrived with his mailbag, which contained quite a number of telegrams, this time.
Not only were there those on the business of the Mica Company, but Mr.
Darby, the storekeeper at Akeville, thought it necessary to send a message to Hetertown by the new line, and there were two or three other private telegrams, that would probably never have been sent had it not been for the novelty of the thing.
But that rascal, Jim Haskins, did not make his appearance, and when Harry found that it was not likely that he would come at all, he induced Aunt Judy to go out and look for some one to carry the telegrams to Hetertown.

Harry had just finished copying the messages--and this took some time, for he wrote each one of them in official form--when Aunt Judy returned, bringing with her a telegraphic messenger.
It was Uncle Braddock.
"Here's a man to take yer letters," said Aunt Judy, as she ushered in the old man.
Harry looked up from his table in surprise.
"Why, Uncle Braddock," said he, "you can't carry these telegrams.

I want a boy, on a mule or a horse, to go as fast as he can." "Lor' bress ye, Mah'sr Harry," said the old negro, "I kin git along fas' enough.

Aunt Judy said ye wanted Jim, an' Nobleses mule; but dat dar mule he back hindwards jist about as much as he walks frontwards.