29/34 It will make me look fearfully ridiculous to be caught in that fashion, with the joke against me a second time! And yet I have a class immediately after recess. There was a livery stable not far away, and he knew the proprietor. So to that stable Mr.Cantwell hurried, changing the satchel from one hand to the other whenever an arm ached too much. "I wish you could do me the favor of having a horse hitched up and take this to my wife. Will you do it ?" "Certainly," nodded the liveryman. |