9/10 I guess everybody in th' world ain't even got an ox wagon to ride in. Have they ?" "No, indeed," she returned, while withering Hawker again. Gee! Whoa! Git-ap!" All the boarders of the inn were upon its porches waiting for the dinner gong. There was a surge toward the railing as a middle-aged woman passed the word along her middle-aged friends that Miss Fanhall, accompanied by Mr.Hawker, had arrived on the ox cart of Mr.Hawker's father. "Whoa there, Red! Whoa, now! Wh-o-a!" Hawker helped the girl to alight, and she paused for a moment conversing with the old man about the oxen. |