I left Crowley to look out for Uncle Ike, who is always
satisfied if he gets toast and tea."
"Don't you know where they've gone?" inquired Strout.
"Over to the hotel, I guess," said Mandy. "I heard Mr. Sawyer tell Miss
Alice that they had good oysters over there, and she said as how she was
dying to get some raw oysters."
"Things couldn't have worked better," remarked Strout, as he rejoined
Abner, who was smoking a cheap cigar. "The Pettengill crowd has gone
over to the hotel to supper. You ought not to smoke, Abner, if you are
going to kiss the girls to-night," said Strout.
"I guess I sha'n't do much kissin'," replied Abner, "except what I give
my fiddle with the bow, and that fiddle of mine is used to smoke."
Strout looked around and saw that the whole party had assembled. There
were about fifty in all, very nearly equally divided as regarded numbers
into fellows and girls.
"Now I am going ahead," said Strout, "to interview the old lady, before
we jump in on them. The rest of you just follow Abner and wait at the
top of the hill, just round the corner, so that they can't see you from
the house.
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