So Ase Tidditt says, anyway; it's his yarn." "'Tain't nuther, Cy Whittaker!" declared the indignant Asaph.

"If you expect I'm goin' to father all your lies, you're mistaken." The crowd at Simmons's discuss politics, as a general thing; state and national politics in their seasons, but county politics and local affairs always.

The question in Bayport that summer, aside from that of the harbor appropriation, was who should be hired as downstairs teacher.
Our schoolhouse is a two-story building, with a schoolroom on each floor.

The lower room, where the little tots begin with their "C--A--T Cat," and progress until they have mastered the Fourth Reader, is called "downstairs." "Upstairs" is, of course, the second story, where the older children are taught.

To handle some of the "big boys" upstairs is a task for a healthy man, and such a one usually fills the teacher's position there.