290 FIVE ACKES TOO MUCH. 



voice to a confidential whisper, &quot; you have been a 

 good customer of mine, and I want to please you ; 

 so let s say three hundred and sixty-five, and that will 

 be almost throwing the pole in. It costs a good 

 twenty-five dollars to build one.&quot; 



I never liked haggling over trifles, so I consented 

 and paid down the money. I did not send for the 

 new carriage immediately ; in fact, a change seemed 

 to have come over the Rockaway; it gave up wob 

 bling, the wheels ran steadier, the springs became 

 stronger, and its general debility disappeared. It 

 was altogether a changed vehicle. I heard no more 

 complaints from Patrick, and all danger in using it 

 seemed to have disappeared, for he took five of his 

 female acquaintances to church in it the very next 

 Sunday morning. When we did get the new coach 

 home it proved to be entirely too heavy, and Patrick 

 was the loudest in declaring it was &quot; no good at all, 

 at all.&quot; Of course, it could not have been that an 

 honest village wheelwright would purposely have 

 put my wagon out of order that he might sell me a 

 new one, but such a sudden recovery of health on 

 the part of a Rockaway was extraordinary and won 

 derful to the last degree. 



Of course, when a man moves permanently into 

 the country, he builds an addition to his house. Why 



