"TEACH THE OLD HENS GOOD MANNERS" 76 "DON'T GET EXCITED" 80 "HAVE YOU HAPPENED TO HEAR ANYBODY SPEAK OF ME?" 83 "I AM HERE FOR A PURPOSE" 92 IDA MAKES HERSELF COMFORTABLE 102 "BACK!" 108 "HE BEGAN SLOWLY TO PUSH IT TOWARDS THE SQUIRREL INN" 112 "I WILL WHEEL IT DOWN TO MY SUMMER-HOUSE WHERE IT IS COOL AND SHADY" 113 "HE LEANED OVER THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CARRIAGE" 118 "CALTHY, THIS IS TRULY LIKE OLD TIMES" 129 "WILL YOU NOT TAKE THESE INSTEAD?" 143 "I HAVE DISSECTED ONE" 147 MRS. CRISTIE CONSIDERS 153 A MATRIMONIAL CONVERSATION 160 CALTHEA HOLDS HIM WITH HER LISTENING EAR 165 THE BABY AND THE SWEET-PEA BLOSSOM 179 MISS CALTHEA STEPS OUT 187 "WHAT SKEERED HIM?" 191 MR. TIPPENGRAY STOPPED AND LISTENED 192 THE TRANSLATION 198 THE PROPOSAL 206 MR. PETTER TAKES OFF HIS HAT 209 LANIGAN BEAM WANTS HIS LADDER 210 THE SQUIRREL INN I THE STEAMBOAT PIER The steamboat _Manasquan_ was advertised to leave her pier on the east side of the city at half-past nine on a July morning. At nine o'clock Walter Lodloe was on the forward upper deck, watching the early passengers come on board, and occasionally smiling as his glance fell upon a tall man in a blue flannel shirt, who, with a number of other deck-hands, was hard at work transferring from the pier to the steamer the boxes, barrels, and bales of merchandise the discouraging mass of which was on the point of being increased by the unloading of a newly arrived two-horse truck.