They may be all right-I'm not saying they're not-but no London street Arabs for me,' I said.
Give me a native born at least.
There'll be a risk, no matter who we get.
But I'll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.' So in the end we decided to ask Mrs. Spencer to pick us out one when she went over to get her little girl.
We heard last week she was going, so we sent her word by Richard Spencer's folks at Carmody to bring us a smart, likely boy of about ten or eleven.
We decided that would be the best age-old enough to be of some use in doing chores right off and young enough to be trained up proper.
We mean to give him a good home and schooling.
We had a telegram from Mrs. Alexander Spencer today-the mail-man brought it from the station-saying they were coming on the five-thirty train tonight.
So Matthew went to Bright River to meet him.
Mrs. Spencer will drop him off there.