Bub and I looked at each other, and then we ran in together.
“Why, Seth! Why, Seth!” exclaimed his mother.
When my mother came over, the two women hugged each other and cried a little.
Father and Mr. Ridlet sat side by side the whole evening long, talking stock.
Mother and Mrs. Ridlet sewed industriously, now and then looking up at each other and laughing.
After Bub and I had filled up on cake and cherries, we made molasses candy and planned for a tramp up Wachuset next morning.
Getting put out with folks is bad, but isn’t making up about O.K?
[ UNLUCKY DAYS FOR ROYALTY.]
Thursday, the day upon which the late Prince Albert Edward died, is an unlucky day for English royalty, four sovereigns—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth—having died on that day, but a far more fatal day is Saturday.
During the past two hundred years, for instance, William III died on Saturday, March 18, 1702; Queen Anne died on Saturday, March 14, 1714; George I died on Saturday, June 10, 1727; George II died on Saturday, October 25, 1760; George III died on Saturday, January 29, 1820; George IV died on Saturday, June 26, 1830; the Duchess of Kent, the present queen’s mother, died on Saturday, March 16, 1861; the Prince Consort, Queen Victoria’s husband, died on Saturday, December 14, 1861, and the Princess Alice, her daughter, died on Saturday, December, 14, 1878.