What diff'rence does that make ?" "Wasn't Mr.Atkins at sea in those days ?" put in the teacher.

The captain answered her.
"Yes, he was," he said.

"That is, I think he was.

He was away from here when I skipped out, and he didn't get back till '61 or thereabouts." "Well, anyhow," went on Asaph, "that's all I could find out.

Seth and me went rummagin' through town records from way back to glory, him gassin' away and stringin' along about this old settler and that, till I 'most wished he'd choke himself with the dust he was raisin'.