Don't you be afraid about my studying; for I'm at it all the while, except when we're playing ball or eating corn.

They say they have sleighing here earlier than we do, and more of it, and plenty of skating.

Well, now, don't say any thing to mother about the corn; but won't I eat when I get home! Yours all the while, DABNEY KINZER." "Why, the poor fellow!" exclaimed Mrs.Kinzer.

"It's enough to stop his growth." It was not many days after that, before Dabney received a couple of boxes by express.

The "marks" told where they came from; and he and the other boys carried them right up stairs, in the face of a kind suggestion from Mrs.Myers that "they might take them right out into the kitchen, and open them there." She had almost ceased from putting her wishes in any more dictatorial form; but she and Almira wondered exceedingly what might be the contents of those boxes.
Dab was only a minute or so in finding out what was in one of them.
"Boiled ham! A whole one! Out with it, Frank.