An' says Jone, 'If I'm to have
anything the matter with me, give me somethin' I'm used to. It
don't do for a man o' my time o' life to go changin' his
diseases.'"
"So home we went. An' there we is now. An' as this is the end of
the bridal-trip story, I'll go an' take a look at the cow an' the
chickens an' the horse, if you don't mind."
Which we didn't,--and we gladly went with her over the estate.
CHAPTER XVII.
IN WHICH WE TAKE A VACATION AND LOOK FOR DAVID DUTTON.
It was about noon of a very fair July day, in the next summer, when
Euphemia and myself arrived at the little town where we were to
take the stage up into the mountains. We were off for a two weeks'
vacation and our minds were a good deal easier than when we went
away before, and left Pomona at the helm. We had enlarged the
boundaries of Rudder Grange, having purchased the house, with
enough adjoining land to make quite a respectable farm. Of course
I could not attend to the manifold duties on such a place, and my
wife seldom had a happier thought than when she proposed that we
should invite Pomona and her husband to come and live with us.
Pomona was delighted, and Jonas was quite willing to run our farm.
So arrangements were made, and the young couple were established in
apartments in our back building, and went to work as if taking care
of us and our possessions was the ultimate object of their lives.
Jonas was such a steady fellow that we feared no trouble from tree-
man or lightning rodder during this absence.
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