102 ‘THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

ford was writing busily in his study,
when he was told that Mr. Wagner and
his son wished to speak to him. He
sent for them to come into the study,
when Mr. Wagner told him he had
called to see him about an affair which
had happened at the long hill, between
their two boys. Mr. Wagner then gave
the aecount of the affair to Mr. Play-
ford’ which Peter had given to lim,
and which made the matter very much
worse than it really was. He ended
by saying, “Now | hold, that because
some folks is rich, and other folks is
poor, that it ain’t right for on folks’
sons to oppress poor folks’ sons.”