7/19 His clothes were snuffy and baggy--so was his face. I sez to ma this mornin', ma, sez I, I should like to go to the country to-day, sez I.Go 'long; pa! sez she. Werry well, sez I, I'll go 'long if you'll go too. Ma she laughed; she know'd I wasn't in earnest. She know'd 'twasn't only a joke." Mr.Van Boozenberg drew out a large red bandana handkerchief, and blew his nose as if it had been a trumpet sounding a charge. |