Part 5 (1/2)

Grandett overawed him; but he evidently felt on a level with aunt Corinne and her nephew In his foolish red face there struggled a recollection of having gone fishi+ng, or played marbles, or hunted wild floith these children or children like thehed at whatever he did His ankle was so relieved by a ic liniment, that he felt able to hobble around the house when Grand under his breath the burst he indulged in when she arrayed the supper on the box:

O, I went to a friend's house, The friend says, 'Come in, Have a hot cup of coffee; And how have you been?'

Grandett said she could not sleep until she knehat other creatures were hidden in the house

They all ascended the enclosed staircase, and searched echoing dusty rooht at their approach

”This is a funny kind of an addition to a tavern,” re We'll build a fire in this upper fireplace, and bring the cushi+ons and shawls up, and see if we can get a wink of sleep It ain't a cold night, and we're dry now You can sleep by the fireplace down-stairs,” she said to the pedler, ”and I'll settle with you for our breakfast and supper before we leave in theIt's been a providence that you were in the house”

Mr Matthews s a new rhyhty it kept hi his head

They came down-stairs for fuel and coals, and she requested the pedler to take possession of the lower room and make himself comfortable, but not to set the house on fire

”What shall we give his from the children; it won't do to let him sleep on the floor”

”I have a cart, it has been said, Which serves me both for cupboard and bed,”

chanted Mr Matthews

”Well, that's a good thing,” said Grandett ”If you could pull a whole furnished house out of that cart 'twouldn't surprise ed his cart in over the low sill They then bolted the door with such rusty fastenings as remained to it

As soon as he felt the faot that his ankle had been twisted He was again upon the road, as free as the s the fence

Grandth of hed, and rattled the cart wildly over the e to pieces; and now he put hiround his feed

He broke out of his stable and careened wildly around a pasture, refusing to be hitched, and expressing his conteuess your sprain wasn't as bad as you let on,” observed Grande, reain

With painful liot the cart before the fireplace It looked like a narrow, high green box on wheels The pedler blocked the wheels behind, and propped the handle level Then he crept with great contentment to the top, and stretched himself to sleep

”He's a kind of a fowl of the air,” said Grand our road!” said Bobaday, as they re-ascended the stairs ”He's more fun than a drove of turkeys!”

”And I'm not a bit afraid of hi on his back”

But J D Mattheas going in the opposite direction

Before Grand, and while the daylight was yet uncertain, the Dutch landlord knocked at the outer door for his fee He see there, but told him to stop at the tavern and trade with the vrow

”And a safe tiett, ettin'