She gave these invites to her brother Bill to deliver. Well, Sam
Hill met him, found out what he was about, and kinder surmised what it
all meant. Wall, the night came 'round and Sam Hill was the only one
that turned up at the time app'inted. After talkin' about the weather,
last year's crops, and spring plantin', Sam just braced up and proposed,
and Tilly accepted him on the spot."
"Where were the other fellers?" asked Mandy. "I always surmised that she
thought more of Ben Bates than she did of Sam Hill."
"Well, it didn't come out till a couple of days afterwards," said Hiram.
"You see, the shortest way to old James's place is to go over the mill
race, and all of the fellers but Sam Hill went that way, and the joke of
it was that they all fell over into the river and got a duckin'."
"Well," said Mandy, "they must have been drinking. Tilly is well rid of
the whole lot of them. Why, I've walked over that log time and time
again."
"Well, they hadn't been drinkin'," said Hiram. "You see it was pretty
dark and they didn't get on to the fact that the log was greased till it
was kinder too late to rectify matters.
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