He waited a minute. It was growing real dark and then he snatched 'em out of the pung.
"'There take 'em,' says he. 'It's just giving 'em away.'"
"I took out the dollar and gave it to him and thanked him, and took the blanket off his horse, and tucked it round his knees so that he might be warm.
"'Which way are you going, youngster?' he asked."
"'I'm going twelve miles to Annesley. I've got a horse in the stable on Blossom street.'"
"'Jump in, then,' says he; 'and I'll carry the stuff there. I go right past the stable.'"
"We only rode a little way; but I got him to laughing, and he said he wished I'd ride all the way home with him. He added 'if you are only twelve, you've got your eye teeth cut, no mistake; I've allus heard that ministers had smart chaps.' He shook hands real hearty when I left him.'"
Mr. Stuart threw back his head and laughed heartily.
"I forgot to tell you," said Dick, "that when I carried my bill to Mr. Jones, he was just going to dinner, and he made me go with him. He lives a little way from the State House and his parlors were fixed up big. Now I'll eat some hasty pudding and go to bed."