CHAPTER XXII.
AS PERRY SAW IT One by one the days passed, and there came from the anxious watchers at David's bedside only the words, "There's very little change." Often Jack Gurnsey went to the farmhouse to inquire for the boy.

Often, too, he saw Perry Larson; and Perry was never loath to talk of David.

It was from Perry, indeed, that Gurnsey began to learn some things of David that he had never known before.
"It does beat all," Perry Larson said to him one day, "how many folks asks me how that boy is--folks that you'd never think knew him, anyhow, ter say nothin' of carin' whether he lived or died.

Now, there's old Mis' Somers, fur instance.

YOU know what she is--sour as a lemon an' puckery as a chokecherry.