He had a dozen theories, and then mother says he would burst out laughing, and say it was one of the cutest tricks that he had ever heard of.
"In the end, Jacobs got married, and father and mother went to the wedding.

Father gave the bridegroom a yoke of oxen, and mother gave the bride a lot of household linen, and I believe they're as happy as the day is long.

Jacobs makes his wife comb her hair, and he waits on the old man as if he was his son, and he is improving the farm that was going to rack and ruin, and I hear he is going to build a new house." "Harry," exclaimed Miss Laura, "can't you take me to see them ?" "Yes, indeed; mother often drives over to take them little things, and we'll go, too, sometime.

I'd like to see Jacobs myself, now that he is a decent fellow.

Strange to say, though he hadn't the best of character, no one has ever suspected him of the robbery, and he's been cunning enough never to say a word about it.