"In less than a week we expect to be on our way to New York .-- I must go," continued she, "and have a room prepared for you, and hunt up the children.

You'll scarcely know them, they have grown so much since you were here.

I'll soon send them," and she hurried off to make uncle John's room comfortable.
"I was never more surprised in my life," said the old gentleman, depositing the glass upon the table, after draining it of its contents--"never more surprised than when I received your letter, in which you stated your intention of going to the North to live.

A more ridiculous whim it is impossible to conceive--the idea is perfectly absurd! To leave a fine old place like this, where you have everything around you so nice and comfortable, to go north, and settle amongst a parcel of strange Yankees! My dear boy, you must give it up.

I'm no longer your guardian--the law don't provide one for people of thirty years and upwards--so it is out of my power to say you shall not do it; but I am here to use all my powers of persuasion to induce you to relinquish the project." "Uncle John, you don't seem to understand the matter.