rip me off a paper every week.
See if that's a two dollar bill."

"It's a five," Warren gasped.

"Glad it's that much; change it, please."

"I'll go out and get it changed."

"Don't put yourself to that much trouble. Give it to Sammy and I bet
he'll change it in a jiffy, for it don't take a lawyer more than a
minute to do such things."

Caruthers looked up with a squint in his eye.

"I think," said Lyman, "that we'd better let him go out and get the
change; that is, unless my partner can accommodate us."

"I have nothing short of a twenty," Caruthers replied, shutting his
eyes.

"Then run along, son, and fetch me the change," said the old man. "But
hold on a minute," he added, as Warren made a glad lunge toward the
door. "Be sure that the money changers in the temple don't cheat you,
for I hear they are a bad lot, and me and Jimmie and Lige have agreed
that they ought to have been lashed out long ago."

"They have never succeeded in getting any money out of me," Warren
laughed; and as he was going out he said to Lyman: "I am going to
flash this five in the face of the Express Company. I didn't know
before that your pen was made of a feather snatched from an angel's
wing."

"Yes, sir," Uncle Buckley began, looking at Lyman, and then at
Caruthers, "we have missed him mightily. Mother says he was the most
uncertain man to cook for she ever run across. Sometimes he'd eat a
good deal, and then for days, while he was a studyin' of his law, and
especially when he was a writin' and a tearin' up, he wouldn't eat
hardly anything. So you see he kept things on the dodge all the time,
and that of itself was enough to make him interestin' to the women
folks. We've had it pretty lively out in Fox Grove. The neighbors all
wanted me to split off and go along with them into the new party, but
I told 'em all my ribs was made outen hickory and was Andy Jackson
Democrat. But the new party swept everything and got into power; and I
want to know if anybody ever saw such a mess as they made of the
legislature."

The old man began to move uneasily and to glance about with an anxious
expression in his eye. "Sammy," said he, "of course I know you, but I
ain't expected to know everybody."

"Yes," said Lyman, smiling at him.

"Well, it just occurred to me whether I wa'n't jest a little brash to
let that young feller off with that money. In the excitement of the
town he might forget to come back."

"Don't worry; he'll be back. T