“Hello, Jack!” cried Randy, as he met the hired man on the side porch. “How are you feeling these days?”
“Pretty good, everything considered,” answered Jack Ness, with a grin. “Ain’t quite as young as I used to be when your dad was a boy around here.”
“He tells me you used to have great times together.”
“Well, we did—when your dad and your uncles didn’t get to cuttin’ up too high.”
“So they cut up once in a while, did they?”
“They sure did!”
After breakfast Tom Rover drove over to the railroad station to meet Dick and his wife. Jack and his sister went along, while Mary took Ruth to show her over the place.
“Well, Aleck, you’re getting younger every day,” remarked Andy, gayly, as he met the old colored man bringing in some onions and turnips from the barn.
“Can’t say as I’s much younger, but I ce’tainly doan feel no older, Massa Andy,” was the answer.
“Haven’t had the mumps, have you?” went on Andy, somewhat anxiously.