Now fly to your cooking, Katy, and let me sit down at this table and see if I can dig out a few dollars of honest coin; but I'm going to have hard work to keep my eyes on the paper with that fireplace before me.

Isn't that red and blue lettering the prettiest thing, Katy, and do you notice that tiny 'P.

M.' cut down in the lower left-hand corner nearly out of sight?
That, Katy, stands for 'Peter Morrison,' and one of these days Peter is going to be a large figure on the landscape.

The next Post he has an article in I'll buy for you." "It never does," said Katy, "to be makin' up your mind in this world so hard and fast that ye can't change it.

In the days before John Gilman got bewitched out of his senses I did think, barrin' your father, that he was the finest man the Lord ever made; but I ain't thought so much of him of late as I did before." "Same holds good for me," said Linda.
"I've studied this Peter," continued Katy, "like your pa used to study things under his microscope.