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 up Mother's truck and carried it into the guest-chamber and dumped it just anywhere, and moved in the machine, and the boxes and mending chest, and then sized up the room again. After thatwent and dragged in my table and set it by the window, where I had intended the desk to go, and then I hauled in the rest of my stuff, and was just sawing one of the shelves that I'd taken from the guest-chamber clothes-press, to start some new book-shelves, when Mother came in. She only stood and stared for a moment, and then her face flushed up young and pretty. She didn't ask any questions, or bother, she just said,—"Thank you, Chester,"—and said it hard,—and then went on about her business. I tell you, Mother is about the most sensible woman that I know!

After dinner, I went and got Bess to go down town with me to help pick out the paper, and to order the desk sent up; and when we had attended to those things, we went over to our store.

Uncle Rob was just starting out to do some collecting as we went in, and we found that Miss Weed was having a day off, so Dad was all alone for a little while;—and it took only two