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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Harry Loudon Makes Up His Mind. 9
II. The Adoption. 15
III. Commencing Business. 21
IV. Kate, very naturally, is Anxious. 30
V. The Turkey-Hunter. 38
VI. Tony Strikes Out. 47
VII. Aunt Matilda's Christmas. 58
VIII. A Lively Team. 71
IX. Business in Earnest. 85
X. A Meeting on the Road. 97
XI. Rob. 103
XII. Tony on the War-path. 112
XIII. Cousin Maria. 118
XIV. Harry's Grand Scheme. 124
XV. The Council. 135
XVI. Company Business. 143
XVII. Principally Concerning Kate. 154
XVIII. The Arrival. 164
XIX. Constructing the Line. 172
XX. An Important Meeting of the Board. 181
XXI. A Last Resort. 189
XXII. A Quandary. 194
XXIII. Crossing the Creek. 202
XXIV. The First Business Telegrams. 210
XXV. Profits and Projects. 225
XXVI. A Grand Proposition. 237
XXVII. How Something Came to an End. 246
XXVIII. A Meeting. 253
XXIX. Once more in the Woods. 257
XXX. A Girl and a Gun. 264
XXXI. A Man in a Boat. 271
XXXII. Aunt Matilda's Letter. 277
XXXIII. Time to Stop. 286
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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.
CHAPTER I.
HARRY LOUDON MAKES UP HIS MIND.
On a wooden bench under a great catalpa-tree, in the front yard of a
comfortable country-house in Virginia, sat Harry and Kate Loudon
worrying their minds. It was all about old Aunt Matilda.
Aunt Matilda was no relation of these children. She was an old colored
woman, who lived in a cabin about a quarter of a mile from their house,
but they considered her one of their best friends. Her old log cabin was
their favorite resort, and many a fine time they had there. When they
caught some fish, or Harry shot a bird or two, or when they could get
some sweet potatoes or apples to roast, and some corn-meal for
ash-cakes, they would take their provisions to Aunt Matilda and she
would cook them. Sometimes an ash-cake would be baked rather harder than
it was convenient to bite, and it had happened that a fish or two had
been cooked entirely away, but such mishaps were not common. Aunt
Matilda was indeed a most wonderful cook--and a cook, too, who liked to
have a boy and a girl by her while she was at work; and who would tell
them stories--as queer old stories as ever were told--while the things
were cooking. The stories were really the cause of the ash-cakes and
fish sometimes being forgotten.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Harry Loudon Makes Up His Mind. 9
II. The Adoption. 15
III. Commencing Business. 21
IV. Kate, very naturally, is Anxious. 30
V. The Turkey-Hunter. 38
VI. Tony Strikes Out. 47
VII. Aunt Matilda's Christmas. 58
VIII. A Lively Team. 71
IX. Business in Earnest. 85
X. A Meeting on the Road. 97
XI. Rob. 103
XII. Tony on the War-path. 112
XIII. Cousin Maria. 118
XIV. Harry's Grand Scheme. 124
XV. The Council. 135
XVI. Company Business. 143
XVII. Principally Concerning Kate. 154
XVIII. The Arrival. 164
XIX. Constructing the Line. 172
XX. An Important Meeting of the Board. 181
XXI. A Last Resort. 189
XXII. A Quandary. 194
XXIII. Crossing the Creek. 202
XXIV. The First Business Telegrams. 210
XXV. Profits and Projects. 225
XXVI. A Grand Proposition. 237
XXVII. How Something Came to an End. 246
XXVIII. A Meeting. 253
XXIX. Once more in the Woods. 257
XXX. A Girl and a Gun. 264
XXXI. A Man in a Boat. 271
XXXII. Aunt Matilda's Letter. 277
XXXIII. Time to Stop. 286
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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.
CHAPTER I.
HARRY LOUDON MAKES UP HIS MIND.
On a wooden bench under a great catalpa-tree, in the front yard of a
comfortable country-house in Virginia, sat Harry and Kate Loudon
worrying their minds. It was all about old Aunt Matilda.
Aunt Matilda was no relation of these children. She was an old colored
woman, who lived in a cabin about a quarter of a mile from their house,
but they considered her one of their best friends. Her old log cabin was
their favorite resort, and many a fine time they had there. When they
caught some fish, or Harry shot a bird or two, or when they could get
some sweet potatoes or apples to roast, and some corn-meal for
ash-cakes, they would take their provisions to Aunt Matilda and she
would cook them. Sometimes an ash-cake would be baked rather harder than
it was convenient to bite, and it had happened that a fish or two had
been cooked entirely away, but such mishaps were not common. Aunt
Matilda was indeed a most wonderful cook--and a cook, too, who liked to
have a boy and a girl by her while she was at work; and who would tell
them stories--as queer old stories as ever were told--while the things
were cooking. The stories were really the cause of the ash-cakes and
fish sometimes being forgotten.
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