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Oh , my perfect gentleman ! _ Thursday . _ Shinny went out and ball came in yesterday . When at noon the boys all ran to me begging for yarn -LRB- of course store balls are an unknown luxury -RRB- and when later I saw Philip , Keats and Hosea ravelling out old socks they said they had bought from Geordie , Taulbee engaged upon a piece of the old comforter he had traded off for a pop-gun , and now bought back at a ruinous price , and heard Killis and Joab bemoaning the fact that they had traded mittens and socks off for pop-guns , and telling of the vast sums Geordie was making selling these and like remains to the `` day-schools , '' I realized that even as far back as pop-gun time the forelooker was dealing in ball futures , and that his transactions then were not even as magnanimous as I had supposed them to be . Saturday and Sunday are the longed-for days of Cousin Emmeline 's funeral occasion , we are to start to-morrow -LRB- Friday -RRB- afternoon , and the `` two homesicks '' are beside themselves with joy . _ Sunday Night . _ Friday noon the little Salyers , Jason -LRB- whom I did not dare leave behind -RRB- and I were all ready to start .