Shaggy Seeks his Stray Brother This sudden arrival was a queer looking man, dressed all in garments so shaggy that Betsy at first thought he must be some animal.

But the stranger ended his fall in a sitting position and then the girl saw it was really a man.

He held an apple in his hand, which he had evidently been eating when he fell, and so little was he jarred or flustered by the accident that he continued to munch this apple as he calmly looked around him.
"Good gracious!" exclaimed Betsy, approaching him.

"Who are you, and where did you come from ?" "Me?
Oh, I'm Shaggy Man," said he, taking another bite of the apple.
"Just dropped in for a short call.

Excuse my seeming haste." "Why, I s'pose you couldn't help the haste," said Betsy.
"No.