[Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville by Edith Van Dyne]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville CHAPTER V 5/17
Bring a table out here on the porch and we'll eat in the open air.
Where's the livery stable--eh? Oh, I see.
Now, step lively, my man, and your fortune's made.
I'll add a quarter of a dollar for every five minutes you save us in time." The fellow stared, then woke up with a start and disappeared within. "By gum, I'll bet a hen it's thet air nabob!" he muttered. Leaving his girls and Mary to sit on the wooden benches of the porch Uncle John crossed the road to the livery stable, where he discovered a man and a boy engaged in cleaning the half dozen sorry looking nags the establishment contained.
A three-seated democrat wagon was engaged to carry the party to the Wegg farm at Millville, and a rickety lumber wagon would take the baggage.
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