Capitolo 40
Carl, cheers to heart, and feeling completely prepared to eat fifty cents'
value of supper, followed the boy in.
A pleasant-looking, matronly woman they clearly dressed but cleanly it came,
directly to greet him/it.
"It says Nat it would appreciate to find some supper", she said.
"Yes", answered Carl. "I hope that you will excuse mine applying to You but Your
child tells me there is no near hotel from."
"The nearest goes here away three miles from."
"I don't think that I can hold out so long", it said Carl, while smiling.
"You sits right with Nat", says the wife of the grower, hospitably. "Mr.
Sweetser won't be at home for half a hour. We have enough, as him
it is."
Evidently her Mrs. Sweetser was a good cook. The supper consisted of it boiled
meat of ram, with some son-in-laws of vegetables. A cup of tea and two son-in-laws of
cake followed.
It was difficult to say which of the two boys it did the strong justice to the
meal. Nat had the usual appetite of a boy of farm I cure, and Carl, in
spite of his/her recent anxieties, and it disperses tightened by serious danger, it did
don't allow to fall behind.
"His/her mother is an excellent cook!" Said Carl, among two bits.
"To the not her, nevertheless?" Answered Nat, his/her mouth full of cake.
When Carl of gnawed by the table he feared that he had eaten more than his
the small escort of money would pay for.
"How much will it be, her Mrs. Sweetser?" he asked.
"Oh, you are rather welcome to everybody that you have had", says the good person woman,
happily. "It is the rate of simple grower."
"I never tasted a best supper", said Carl.
Mrs. Sweetser seemed pleased with the compliment to his/her cooking.
"Comes again when you are passing so", she said. "You always want
is welcome to a supper."
Carl thanked her/it for heart, and it pressed on his/her way. Two hours later, to
a solitary point of the road, a vagabond that sick-looks that you/he/she was reclining
from the border, it jumped on, and it addressed him in a threatening tone:
"Young feller, open on all the money that you have, or I will make her evil!