"Rube, they're not going to pull down any more of the barn."
"Tell you what, though, they never'd have got through the way they did if they hadn't laid some track inside and knocked the doors down."
"Course they wouldn't. I say, old Squire Cudworth's going home."
"Hear the 'cademy bell! Did you know it was nine o'clock? What'll we say to Miss Eccles?"
"I don't care so much, Rube. She won't get a roomful till this crowd gets there. There's about as many girls as boys."
"Black marks all 'round. She's seen a railroad before, or she'd have been here herself. I ain't so sorry as I was about that barn. Do you know what's a station-house?"
"I guess I do, but we'd better stop after school and ask Dolf Zimmerman."
At the supper table that evening, Bun Gates heard his father say to his mother: "Squire Cudworth? Oh yes, he got a good price for his barn. What made him sick was the railway superintendent thanking him for building them so nice a station-house, just where they wanted it. He tried to laugh, but he couldn't, and everybody else did."
