`` Well , well , and you 're Lovell ! I think I ought to know your face , though you 've changed a lot . Fifteen years have made a big difference in you . Come right in . Pa , this is Lovell -- you mind Lovell , the boy Aunt Sally and Uncle Tom had for years ? '' `` Reckon I do , '' drawled Jonah Stetson with a friendly grin . `` Ai n't likely to forget some of the capers you used to be cutting up . You 've filled out considerable . Where have you been for the last ten years ? Aunt Sally fretted a lot over you , thinking you was dead or gone to the bad . '' Lovell 's face clouded . `` I know I ought to have written , '' he said repentantly , `` but you know I 'm a terrible poor scholar , and I 'd do most anything than try to write a letter . But where 's Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally gone ? Surely they ai n't dead ? '' `` No , '' said Jonah Stetson slowly , `` no -- but I guess they 'd rather be . They 're in the poorhouse . '' `` The poorhouse ! Aunt Sally in the poorhouse ! '' exclaimed Lovell . `` Yes , and it 's a burning shame , '' declared Mrs. Stetson .
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