Part 3 (1/2)
”Well, we can't go further ourselves Can you take the lines?”
”Oh, nein,” said the tavern-keeper oes a little furter”
”You don't keep nantly ”What's your tavern for?”
”Oh, yah,” replied the host with undisturbed benevolence ”Dey goes a little furter”
”Why have you put out a sign to mislead folks?”
The tavern keeper took the pipe out of his n It swayed back and forth in the valley breeze, as if itself expostulating with hio up te hill, tere ist te house I put up mit te moofers First house All convenient You sthay tere I coo in te mornin' Tere ist more as feefty famblies sthop mit tat house Oh, nien, I don't keep moofers mit te tafern”
”This is a queer way to do,” said Grandlasses on him ”Turn a woman and two children away to harbor as well as they can in some old barn! I'll not stop in your house on the hill Who'd 'tend to the horses?”
”Tare ist grass and water,” said the landlord as she turned from his door ”And more as feefty famblies hast put up tere I don't keep moofers mit te tafern”
Robert and Corinne felt very ho pace down the valley They were hungry, and upon an unknown road; and that inhospitable tavern had turned theht before we'll stop in his ett with her well-known decision ”I suppose he calls every vagabond that coentry I've heard about the Swopes and the Dutch being stupid, but a body has to travel before they know”
But well did the Dutch landlord know the persuasion of his house on the hill after luckless travellers had passed through a streah, but the very banks had a caving, treacherous look Grande on the flanks of Old Hickory and Old Henry, and they disappeared to their nostrils and the harness strips along the centre of their backs
[Illustration: ”HASN'T THE CREEK ANY BOTTOM?” CRIED GRANDMA PADGETT]
”Hasn't the creek any botto to the settling carriage The water poured across their feet and rose up to their knees Hickory and Henry were urged hip and cry
”Hold fast, children! Don't get swept out!” Grander if the horses can climb the bank”
They were turned out of their course by the current, and Hickory and Henry got their fore feet out, crurew steeper If they did not get out here, allwas e cracked, and when its wheels once ett tre to the children's exclaer,” she said ”And that !”
”If I's big enough,” said Robert Day, ”I'd go back and thrash hiive place to wrath after escaping from peril But if this is the trap he sets for his house on the hill, I hope he has been caught in it hio now?” Corinne wailed, having considered it was tiether, I'ettin' so cold!”
They paused at the top of the hill, Corinne still laett, adding, ”but I suppose we able-end turned toward the road The ”feefty famblies” had left no trace of dorew to the los The entrance was at one side through a sea of rank growths
”It looks like they's ghosts lived here,” pronounced Robert dismally