'Who sent 'em? Grizzle?'
'No, no; you think there is nobody in the whole creation world to buy anything but Grizzle.' And then raising her voice to the very loudest—
'Nobody sent 'em; they come o' themselves, and they'll pay you the money right down when you take 'em the things.'
'Well, well, that will do,'—and he smiled then, for the first time, as he looked at the boys—'that'll do; you shall have 'em; let me know when you want 'em.'
And now Mrs. Bloodgood would insist upon their going in, and taking something to eat. In vain it was they protested that they were not hungry, having eaten a lunch on their way.
'I know better than that. I know what boys are; they can always eat; so if you won't go in, don't either on you stir one step till I come out.'
In she ran, and in a moment appeared again with one-half of a large bread-cake, which she had just taken from the griddle, with a lump of butter on the top of it, and she with a knife spreading it on; but there was no occasion for the knife, for the butter was running like snow in summer, and dripping over the sides of the cake.
'Here, boys, take this;' breaking it in two, and giving each half 'I know it will taste good.'