[Rudder Grange by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link book
Rudder Grange

CHAPTER X
4/15

But there wouldn't have been much fun in that." "There are a good many things that there's no fun in," said the captain.
"Do you cook your own meals, or have them sent from the house ?" "Cook them ourselves, of course," said Euphemia.

"We are going to have supper now.

Won't you wait and take some ?" "Thank you," said Mrs.Atkinson, "but we must go." "Yes, we must be going," said the captain.

"Good-bye.

If it rains I'll come down after you with an umbrella." "You need not trouble yourself about that," said I."We shall rough it out, rain or shine." "I'd stay here now," said Euphemia, when they had gone, "if it rained pitch." "You mean pitchforks," I suggested.
"Yes, anything," she answered.
"Well, I don't know about the pitchforks," I said, looking over the creek at the sky; "but am very much afraid that it is going to rain rain-water to-morrow.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books