Chapter XXII.
THE ARRIVAL.
Bright and early on the following morning Jack set out for the post office with the letter, and Mr. Treat would have resumed the "dicker" for the cow immediately after his arrival, but the hunchback prevented him by saying,—
"I don't want to buy one now. Mrs. Souders gave Aunt Nancy a handsome creature, and that is all she needs."
"Sho! You don't mean to tell me Sarah Souders gave one right out?"
"That's what she did."
"Then all I can say is, it's a case of fool an' her money soon parted. Why shouldn't Aunt Nancy pay for things the same as anybody else?"
"She hadn't the money."
"There's where you make a mistake, for we haven't settled for the wheat yet, an' I've quite a little sum in my hands belongin' to her."
"But that must be used in gettin' ready for the summer boarders."