her
ear. Finally he said: "Take yourselves off, and send Robert here. I
want my son. Oh I want my boy!"

It was a long time before Robert came from the parlour; when he did, it
was only to get his mother and take her back with him; then it was a
still longer time before the door opened; but when it did, it was
perfectly sure that they were all friends again. Then Leon went to
tell Thomas, and he came with the big carriage.

White and shaking, Mr. Pryor was lifted into it and they went home
together, taking Shelley with them to stay that night; so no doubt she
was proposed to and got her kiss before she slept.

That fall there were two weddings at our church at the same time.

Sally's had been fine; but it wasn't worth mentioning beside Laddie and
the Princess, and Robert and Shelley. You should have seen my mother!
She rocked like a kingbird on the top twig of the winesap, which was
the tallest tree in our orchard, and for once there wasn't a single fly
in her ointment, not one, she said so herself, and so did father. As
we watched the big ve-hi-ackle, as Leon called it, creep slowly down
the Little Hill, it made me think of that pathetic poem, "The Three
Warnings," in McGuffey's Sixth. I guess I gave Mr. Pryor the first,
that time he got so angry he hit his horse until it almost ran away.
Mother delivered the second when she curry-combed him about the taxes,
and Mrs. Freshett finished the job. The last two lines read as if they
had been especially written about him:

"And now old Dodson, turning pale,
Yields to his fate--so ends my tale."

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