blacks see them," answered Mr. Middleton; then after a pause he added,
"They’ll be right glad to see me, I reckon, or at least Sunshine will."

"Who is Sunshine?" asked Dr. Lacey.

"Well, now," said Mr. Middleton, "here you’ve lived with ’em four weeks
and don’t know that I call one Tempest and t’other Sunshine, and if you’ve
any wit, you’ll know which is Sunshine."

Just then a voice was heard to exclaim, "There, I told you father was
here. I hear him now talking about Sunshine," and Fanny rushed in, and
throwing her arms around her father’s neck, kissed again and again his
rough cheek, while he suddenly felt the need of his red and yellow cotton
handkerchief, and muttered something about the "roads" being so infernal
dusty that they made a fellow’s eyes smart!

Then turning to Julia, who still stood in the door, he said, "Come,
Tempest, none of your pranks! Come here and shake your old pap’s paw. You
needn’t be afeared of this young spark, for he knows I’m your pap, and he
hain’t laughed at me neither." So Julia advanced and shook her father’s
hand with a tolerably good grace.

"I’m come for you to go home and see the folks," said Mr. Middleton; "so
you pick up your duds—and mind not to take a cussed bandbox—and after
dinner we’ll start for home."

"It wants an hour of dinner time," said Julia, "and as we are not hungry,
we can start in a few moments, if you like."

"Fury-ation," said Mr. Middleton, "I wonder if we can. Well, start on then