CHAPTER XXIII.
SOMETHIN' LUDIKEROUS.
There was an egg-supper in the country store at Brayville.

Mr.Mandluff, the tall and raw-boned Hoosier who kept the store, was not unwilling to have the boys get up an egg supper now and then in his store after he had closed the front-door at night.

For you must know that an egg-supper is a peculiar Western institution.

Sometimes it is a most enjoyable institution--when it has its place in a store where there is no Kentucky whisky to be had.

But in Brayville, in the rather miscellaneous establishment of the not very handsome and not very graceful Mr.
Mandluff, an egg-supper was not a great moral institution.