"I ain't wanting this to get out on me, that I come sneaking back here to have you teach me the silly game." "Mon, mon!" protested the hurt McTavish.
"So why can't Buck here come up and teach me in private?
There's open space back of the stables." "Ye cud do wor-r-rse," said John.

"And yer-r-r full hour-r-'s lesson now will be two dollar-r-rs." "Certainly, McTavish," said Sharon, concealing his amazement.

He could no longer address as Sandy one who earned two dollars as lightly as this.
There was a spacious opening back of the stable on the Whipple Old Place--space and the seclusion which Sharon Whipple considered imperative.

Even Elihu Titus was sent about his business when he came to observe; threatened with an instant place in the ranks of the unemployed if he so much as breathed of the secret lessons to a town now said to be composed of snickering busybodies.

The open space immediately back of the stable gave on wider spaces of pasture and wood lot..