and don't you make any fuss about it, for it's your own, and
I can go without spending-money if you can, and am willing
to too. And it's no great denial, either, for the pony'll
come sometime, I'm quite sure. So don't you worry any more
about how the carpenter is to be paid. Good-by, dear old
fellow,
"Ned Thorn.
"P.S.—I was just as dismal as I could be after I got home,
longing to go back to that dreary, dismal, good-for-nothing
Culm Rock. The shells, etc., got here all right. Give my