Chapter 1. A Family Council
_ CHAPTER ONE. A FAMILY COUNCIL
"I say, Uncle Dick, do tell me what sort of a place it is."
"Oh, you‘ll see when you get there!"
"Uncle Jack, you tell me then； what‘s it like?"
"Like! What, Arrowfield? Ask Uncle Bob."
"There, Uncle Bob, I‘m to ask you. Do tell me what sort of a place it is?"
"Get out, you young nuisance!"
"What a shame!" I said. "Here are you three great clever men, who know all about it； you‘ve been down half a dozen times, and yet you won‘t answer a civil question when you are asked."
I looked in an ill-used way at my three uncles, as they sat at the table covered with papers； and except that one would be a little darker than the other, I could not help thinking how very much they were alike, and at the same time like my father, only that he had some grey coming at the sides of his head. They were all big fine-looking men between thirty and forty, stern enough when they were busy, but wonderfully good-tempered a

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