CHAPTER IX.
THE WIDOW BASSETT These developments, Major Hardee's marriage and Mr.Gott's discomfiture, overshadowed, for the time, local interest in the depot master's house moving.

This was, in its way, rather fortunate, for those who took the trouble to walk down to the lower end of the Boulevard were astonished to see how very slowly the moving was progressing.
"Only one horse, Sim ?" asked Captain Hiram Baker.

"Only one! Why, it'll take you forever to get through, won't it ?" "I'm afraid it'll take quite a spell," admitted Mr.Phinney.
"Where's your other one, the white one ?" "The white horse," said Simeon slowly, "ain't feelin' just right and I've had to lay him off." "Humph! that's too bad.

How does Sol act about it?
He's such a hustler, I should think--" "Sol," interrupted Sim, "ain't unreasonable.

He understands." He chuckled inwardly as he said it.