growing boy like Dab Kinzer. It is not everybody's brother-in-law who would find time during his wedding-trip to hu

m did, however; and Mirand

vertised for in the great city, that she had hardly a corner left in which to stow away Ham and his bride, for even one night. She was glad enough, however, that

hose glances, or else that they did not make a longer stay with Mrs. Myers. They might have learned more about her and her boarding-house, if not about the academy. As it was, they only gathered a very high opinion of her cookery and hospitality, as well as an increa

p for her brother somewhat, but

It'll be good for him to board in the same house with

eel sure of his having plenty to eat. T

age, and with his appetite. Mrs. Myers is eviden

t; and, when the regular boarders came to theirs, they might have guessed at once that

he lived in, and the outlying farm belonging to it, and nearly all the house-hold effects it contained, were the property of Mr. Joseph Hart, having cost that gentleman very little more than a sharp lawsuit. Neither did she say a word

tle modified if they could have been at the breakfast-table of the

akfast-things on it, and there were husband and wif

nd Foster, Maria

ther. I heard them come

wait fo

a suppressed sound of whispers in the entry, and the door had been held open about half an inch b

, Maria: they may have gone a little to

the whispers in the entry swelled suddenly to loud voices, and t

g glance from one to the other. "I have told your fat

Hart, with affected sternness: "you

, to his brother across the tab

stiff and steep for me. S

oo bad altogether. I'm afraid there won't be much comfort f

that? They're going to give

we go, so we haven't go

rs'

," said Mr. Hart. "I ha

there?" exclaimed

voice, that sounded a little like good Mrs.

enough of it. I just won'

e from his mind for the present. "Your cousin Ford is sure to go; and I'm almost certain of another boy, besides th

"And, if the new house doesn't f

st write to your sister, and smooth the matter over. Boys will be boys, and

it, and the two boys evidently had had no nee

although it may be few other people would have se

t a long procession of things to be laughed at. Foster, so named after his lawyer relative, was a year and a half younger, but nearly as tall as Joe. He was paler, but wit

hearty in his accustomed manner; and they each had also a little suggestion of their

they were the very boys to play the meanest kind of practical jokes when they could do it safely. There is r

ther should be quite willing to have them spend three-quarters of the year at board

Mrs. Hart set herself about her usual duties, Joe and Fuz

ave to g

ve more to eat, and more f

he? The little prig

that young

ile he's at our house. He's

d friends of mother's. We'll let up on

e'll fi

r boys they did not name, had the least idea of what the future really had in store for them. Dab Kinzer and Ford Fo

of finding Annie Foster in the sitting-room that day,

is voluble narrative of the stirring events of his first morning on the bay. Ther

e part of the audience; but the moment

e black boy was

black-fish. The rest all know him, and they w

"I forgot. Annie, this is Ford's f

inzer?" said Annie, with a malicious

his own mother's son if he had let himself be entirely "posed." Up rose his long right arm, with the heavy s

boy of your size can do that. Look her

you see," began Dab; but F

Annie, have you looked at the crabs? You ought to have

his

boat. They'd have eaten him up if they'd h

wish you would thank your mother for me, for sending my trunk o

ame by so very pretty a young lady, and yet it seemed t

xt thought that came to him; and he was right, to a fraction. So the great lump in his thro

d-afternoon, Mrs. Foste

and the yacht. Good

marched out

ou hear him ca

eard you call

's only

good one. Did you see how wonderfully strong he is in his arms

d been trying his

g, had developed in him greater strength of muscle than even he himself

e ill-bred or impertinent

t? Abo

was compelled to go over, for Ford's benefit, the whole story of her tribula

e drowned," said

Just as they drowned my