"I can see his pole."
Laddie saw it too, a moment later. The man in the boat was a fisherman.
Pretty soon he was near enough for the boys to call to him.
"Hey!" exclaimed Russ. "Have you got 'em?"
He supposed, of course, that the man would know what he was talking about.
And so it might seem, for the man made answer:
"Well, I had 'em but I lost 'em. But I'll get 'em again."
"Oh, daddy will be so glad!" cried Laddie. "Did you lose 'em out of your
coat?"
The man looked up quickly.
"Lose 'em out of my coat? Why, no," he said. "I lost 'em off my hook--two
of the biggest fish I've caught this day! But I'll get 'em back--or some
just like 'em which will be as good. Hello, youngsters," he added with a
smile. "Do you live at Mrs. Bell's place?"
"We're just visiting her," explained Russ. "She's our grandma. We're the
six little Bunkers."
"Oh, ho!" exclaimed the man with a laugh. "That's so--there are six of
you! I can see now," and he looked beyond Russ and Laddie to where Rose,
Vi, Margy and Mun Bun were playing on the sandy point and having lots of
fun.
"But are you fond of fishing, that you ask if I lost 'em?" the man went
on.
"If you please," replied Russ, "we didn't mean to ask about your fish,
though we're sorry you lost any. But have you daddy's papers?"
"Daddy's papers? I don't know what you mean," the man said.
"Aren't you a lumberman?" asked Laddie, not liking to use the name
"tramp," as the man, though he did have on a ragged coat, did not seem
like the lazy wanderers who prowl about the country asking for food but
not wanting to work.
"No, I'm not a lumberman," said the man. "What makes you ask that?"
"Well, you look like the lumberman--only he was a tramp--that my father
gave a ragged coat to," went on Russ. "And there were real estate papers
in the coat, and daddy wants 'em back."
"Ha! Is that so?" asked the man, "Well, I'm sorry but I don't know
anything about 'em. I never saw your father that I know of, though I do
know Mrs. Bell. I live
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.