But this method of balancing expenditure and income is
very unsatisfactory, and cannot be long continued.
"I am led to plead for the society with especial insistence at the
present time, inasmuch as more than one of those whose unblemished life
has made them fitting recipients of such a signal favour, have recently
had visions informing them that the Sunchild will again shortly visit us.
We know not when he will come, but when he comes, my friends, let him not
find us unmindful of, nor ungrateful for, the inestimable services he has
rendered us. For come he surely will. Either in winter, what time
icicles hang by the wall and milk comes frozen home in the pail--or in
summer when days are at their longest and the mowing grass is about--there
will be an hour, either at morn, or eve, or in the middle day, when he
will again surely come. May it be mine to be among those who are then
present to receive him."
Here he again glared at my father, whose blood was boiling. George had
not positively forbidden him to speak out; he therefore sprang to his
feet, "You lying hound," he cried, "I am the Sunchild, and you know it."
George, who knew that he had my father in his own hands, made no attempt
to stop him, and was delighted that he should have declared himself
though he had felt it his duty to tell him not to do so.
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