Well, I rather think I shall be able to tend
to that matter now, at once. One, two, three," said Hiram, "just think
of it; well, that's the biggest lark that I've ever ben connected with;
beats buying the grocery store all holler."
"Well," continued Quincy, "you three gentlemen understand it now, and if
matters can be arranged I will do my part, and I promise you all a grand
send-off; but not a word of it must be breathed to outside parties,
remember. It won't amount to anything unless its' a big surprise."
"All right," said Hiram, "I kinder reckon Sawyer's surprise party will
be a bigger one than Strout's was."
"Oh," continued Hiram, "I 'most forgot. Mandy was up ter see her mother
abeout thet room for thet man that's comin' down from Boston Monday
night, and Mis' Hawkins says the price of the room is three dollars per
week and the board fifty cents a day. Mandy paid for the room for a
week, and Mis' Hawkins says after she takes out what the board comes to
she'll give the balance back ter Mandy."
"That's all right," said Quincy, "I've heard from the man in Boston, and
he'll surely occupy the room next Monday night.
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