"Then you have not been to Mr. Douglass's?"
"I have not," said Philetus;--"I thought likely you wouldn't calculate to want him teu."
"How came the doctor to know what you were going for?"
"I told him."
"But how came you to tell him?"
"Wall I guess he had a mind to know," said Philetus, "so I didn't keep it no closer than I had teu."
"Well," said Fleda biting her lips, "you will have to go down to Mr. Douglass's nevertheless, Philetus, and tell him the doctor is coming to-morrow, but I should be very much obliged to him if he will be here next day. Will you?"
"Yes marm!"
"Now dear Hugh, will you make me those little spouts for the trees!--of some dry wood--you can get plenty out here. You want to split them up with a hollow chisel about a quarter of an inch thick, and a little more than half an inch broad. Have you got a hollow chisel?"
"No, but I can get one up the hill. Why must it be hollow?"