"Say, that must have broke Nate's heart completely.

All that good money goin' to the poor.

Ha! ha!" "Yes," said Captain Sol, with a broad grin.

"Nate told me that every time he realized that Gus's flyin' at all was due to his scarin' him into it, it fairly made him sick of life." "What did Huldy Ann say?
I'll bet the fur flew when SHE heard of it!" "I guess likely it did.

Scudder says her jawin's was the worst of all.
Her principal complaint was that he didn't take up with the professor's five-thousand offer and try to fly.