d to that
rectangular neighborhood surrounding Jonas's twenty acres. "I guess I
belong to the Square. And I have just been thinking that as long as
Mr. Brown has been living alone around that house he has probably got
it into a pretty bad mess. Most likely the kitchen is a sight and the
place is all out of order. Somebody ought to go over and sweep and
dust and scrub and red things up. If the young lady was to come along
to-morrow and see things like that she would think we was a _pretty_
sort of a neighborhood. I move and second that I go and do it."

Without a dissenting vote, this motion was carried.

Mrs. Harmon was about to declare the meeting adjourned; but she paused
with her spoon in the air. "Mr. Hicks," she said, turning her head in
his direction, "I believe you understand about the rockery?"

"Yes," replied Jonas, rising. "I 'll tend to that all right. I 'll
get them back and fixed just the same as before. And as long as
everybody is bearing witness, I might as well do the same, as the cat
said when she got caught in the mousetrap. Most likely, if Steve has
been hauling things around in that house, there will be lots of heavy
lifting and tall reaching that needs to be done; so if Mrs. Berry is
going over there to fix up I guess I 'll go along too."

Upon this the batter-spoon came down and the meeting was declared
adjourned. But though it was adjourned, it did not immediately
disperse--women's meetings seldom do. Such delightful duties being in
the air, they had to be dwelt upon and enlarged, and Jonas had to bring
forth further details of his favorable impressions of the young lady.
And did he do her justice? Did he let them understand how well-bred
and refined and good-looking she was? Did he, in short, convey the
information that she was just about the sweetest and most delightful
and charming young lady that ever set foot on the soil of Texas? I
think, dear reader, that we may safely intrust that duty to Mr. Jonas
Hicks.

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