A New Home - Who'll Follow?; Or, Glimpses of Western Life, by Mrs. Mary Clavers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... says he, 'and 1 '11 make it cost your husband all he is worth in the world.' "He spoke so loud that Mr. Peeler, the master, came out of the room to see what was the matter, and Wilkins bullied away and told Peeler what I had said, and dared me to say it over again. The master looked as if he knew something about it but did not speak. Just then the door opened, and in came George Danforth led between two men as pale as death, and dripping wet from head to foot. You may think how I felt Well, they would n't give no answer about what was the matter till they got George into bed--only one of 'em said he had been in the canal. Wilkins pretended to be too angry to notice my husband, but kept talking away to himself--and was jist a beginning at me again, when one of the men said, 'Squire, I guess Henry '11 want some looking after; for Mr. Danforth has just got him out of the water.' "If I live to be an hundred years old I shall never forget how Wilkins looked. There was every thing in his face at once. He seemed as if he would pitch head-foremost out of the door when he started to go home--for Henry was his only child. "When he was gone, and my husband had got warm and recovered himself a little, he told us, that he had seen Henry fall into the lock, and soused right in after him, and they had come very near drowning together, and so stayed in so long that they were about senseless when they got into the air again. Then I told him all that had happened--and then Peeler, he up, and told that he saw Wilkins take a paper off the stand the time I opened the bed-room door, to get the bridle, for he was at our house then. "I was very glad to hear it to be sure; but the very next morning came a new deed and the mortgage with a few lines from Mr. Wilkins, saying how thankful...