There was a family shout.
“The trouble was in the weight,” said the carpenter.
“That is why it is called a dumb-waiter,” Solomon John explained to the little boys.
The dinner was put upon the table.
Mrs. Peterkin frugally suggested that they might now keep it for the next day, as to-day was almost gone, and they had had tea.
But nobody listened. All sat down to the roast turkey; and Amanda warmed over the vegetables.
“Patient waiters are no losers,” said Agamemnon.
THE PETERKINS’ SUMMER JOURNEY.
IN fact, it was their last summer’s journey—for it had been planned then; but there had been so many difficulties, it had been delayed.