The newcomer's good-looking, strong-featured face was lighted up by a smile of surpassing friendliness.
"It's lonesome as thunder down here, isn't it?
Glad to see you, gentlemen.

What's up--a bicycle race ?" "No, sir; we got a little business up here, that's all," responded Anderson Crow diplomatically.

"What air you doin' here ?" "Skating.

My name is Wicker Bonner, and I'm visiting my uncle, Congressman Bonner, across the river.

You know him, I dare say.