fun, "but I'm perfectly positive that it would do Uncle Cassius and Aunt
Daphne an awful lot of good."

"Then we must not deprive them of the opportunity. Do you think so,
Hiram?"

Hiram stuck his head through the clambering vines and clustering leaves,
like a tousled freckle-faced New England faun.

"Couldn't do no harm either way, s'far as I can see," he said,
judiciously. "And if the old folks need any sort of discipline, I'd
certainly start Miss Kit after them."




CHAPTER V

SHEPHERD SWEETINGS


That was the end of August. Cousin Roxy heartily approved of the plan, and
said no doubt the fire down at Greenacres had been a direct dispensation
of Providence.

"You were all of you settling down into a rut before it happened, and the
old place needed a thorough going over anyhow. You know you couldn't have
afforded it, Jerry, if it hadn't been for the fire insurance money coming
in so handy like. Now, you'll all move back the first part of the winter,
with the new furnace set up, and no cracks for the wind to whistle