The remaining days of their visit would have been altogether too few for the varied entertainments he laid out for them, in his own mind, by way of reparation for his unlucky "practical joke." They were to catch all there was in the bay.

They were to ride everywhere.

They were to be shown every thing there was to see.
"They don't deserve it, Dab," said Ford; "but you're a real good fellow.
Mother says so." "Does she ?" said Dab; and he evidently felt a good deal relieved, after that.
Mr.Richard Lee, when his friends once more found time to think of him, had almost disappeared from the public eye.
Some three days after "the trip," while all the other boys were out in the "Jenny," having a good time with their hooks and lines, Dick's mother made her appearance in Mrs.Kinzer's dining-room, or Miranda's, with a face that was even darker than usual, with a cloud of motherly anxiety.
"Miss Kinzer," she said, "has you seen my Dick, dis week ?" "No: he hasn't been here at all.

Is there any thing the matter with him ?" "Dat's de berry question.

I jes' doesn't know wot to make ob 'im." "Why, Glorianna, do you think he's studying too hard ?" "It ain't jes' de books; I isn't so much afeard ob dem: but it's all 'long ob de 'Cad'my.