Abram Gee and wantin' to see if this young chap wuz anywhere nigh
as good as Abram.

Well about a hour after we came back, Josiah missed his glasses he
reads with. And we looked all over the house for 'em, and under
the bed, and on the ceilin', and through our trunks and bandboxes,
and all our pockets, and in the Bible, and Josiah's boots, and
everywhere. And finely, after givin' 'em up as lost, the idee
come to us that they might possibly have ketched on the fringe of
Ardelia's shawl, and so rode home with her on it.

So we sent one of the office-boys home with her mit and asked her
if she had seen Josiah's glasses. And word come back by the boy
that she hadn't seen 'em, and she sent word to me to look on my
pardner's head for 'em, and sure enough there we found 'em, right
on his foretop, to both of our surprises.

She sent also by the boy a poem she had wrote that afternoon, and
sent word how sorry she wuz I wuzn't to home to see Mr. Flamburg.
But I see him only a day or two after that, and I didn't like his
looks a mite.

But he said, and stuck to it, that his father owned a large bank,
that he wuz a banker, and a doin' a heavy business.

Wall, that raised him dretfully in Ardelia's eyes; she owned up to
me that it did. She owned to me that she lead always thought she
would love to be a Banker's Bride. She thought it sounded rich.
She said, "banker sounded so different from baker."