“You'll find us all here whenever you want to come back to it. For I've
talked with Mr. Strickland and I'm going to adopt Sister, all reg'lar,
and she shall have what I leave when I die, only promising to give Mr.
Camp a shelter, if he should outlast me.
“Sister's folks may never look her up, and she may never git that money
the institution folk think is coming to her. But she'll be well fixed
here, that's sure.”
Indeed, taking it all around, everybody of importance to the story
seemed to be “well fixed”, as Mother Atterson expressed it. She herself
need never be disturbed by the vagaries of boarders, or troubled in her
mind, either waking or sleeping, about the gravy--save on Thanksgiving
Day.
Old Lem Camp and Sister were provided for by their own exertions and
Mrs. Atterson's kindness. The Dickersons--even Pete--had become friendly
neighbors. Henry Pollock had waked up his father, and they were running
the Pollock farm on much more modern lines than before.
And Hiram himself was looking ahead to a scheme of life that suited him,
and to a chance “to make good” on a much larger scale than he had on the
Atterson Eighty where, nevertheless, he had made the soil pay.
End of Project Gutenberg's Hiram The Young Farmer, by Burbank L. Todd
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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