Brown did not try to detain her. Neither did she
punish Willie, in fact she gave him an extra piece of pie for dinner.
* * * * *
The Browns, Joneses and Bakers are still on the best of terms, but
Mr. Brown never put the wire netting up and yet Mrs. Brown plants
her garden with never a thought of neighbors' hens.
Incidentally Willie and Ned have developed into first class fishermen.
BY HEART
LILLIAN E. ANDREWS
Captain Enoch Burgess went down Mapleville's main street at a rate
of speed that threatened to break all records. The tails of his
linen coat stood out like the sails of a Gloucester fisherman
homeward bound with a "full bin fare." He stamped up Abner Crowell's
walk, and slammed the kitchen door.
Abner was weeding onions. He stared after the captain curiously.
"Looks like squally weather," he commented. "I wonder what's sent
Enoch on his beam ends like that."
As Abner bent with a grunt to his task, his wife came hurrying
toward him, her apron strings flying like distress signals.
"Abner," she demanded excitedly, "did you ever hear of Captain
Enoch's havin' fits?"
"No, I dunno's I ever did," replied Abner, twitching up an
enterprising wild mustard.
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