t eggs.
Mebby I ain't old enough to know who to marry, but I'm old enough to run
this house for you, and you don't get no more eggs. No more eggs until
spring, or until I can marry who I want to."

Pap looked at the mushy piece of toast and grinned sheepishly.

"You'd be worse of 'n ever, Sally," he said meekly, "if so be you
married a man that felt he had to hev eggs every morning. They'd be two
of us then."

"Well, Id just have to buy eggs then," she said, "if that come to pass.
I couldn't expect these few hens to lay enough eggs in winter for two
men. If I had to buy eggs for a husband, I'd buy them."

The old man ate his toast slowly and without relish.

"Sally," he said that afternoon, "I guess mebby you'd better git
married. I'm gittin' old. You'd better marry that book agent whilst you
got a chance."

It was Pap Briggs who urged an early date, after that, and who was most
joyous at the wedding.

"Pap," asked Sally one morning soon after she and Eliph' were married,
while the three were sitting at breakfast, "what ever made you swing
round so sudden and want me to marry Eliph', after objectin' so long?"

Her father looked at Eliph' slyly and chuckled.

"Eggs," he said. "I fooled you that time, Sally. I knowed when I said to
go ahead that Eliph' has to have eggs for breakfast. Doc Weaver told me
so."

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