He had never before seen one, and only the lure of further conversation on the part of Verman brought him from the window.
"Verman say tell you 'bout pappy," explained Herman.

"Mammy an' Queenie move in town an' go git de house all fix up befo' pappy git out." "Out of where ?" "Jail.

Pappy cut a man, an' de police done kep' him in jail evuh sense Chris'mus-time; but dey goin' tuhn him loose ag'in nex' week." "What'd he cut the other man with ?" "Wif a pitchfawk." Penrod began to feel that a lifetime spent with this fascinating family were all too short.

The brothers, glowing with amiability, were as enraptured as he.

For the first time in their lives they moved in the rich glamour of sensationalism.