Had him squinting around some, I bet! Then they got wise that I was reporting a through freight, and they kid me about it yet.

But they fell for it at first all right!" "What do you know about that!" Marion melodiously exclaimed, and laughed companionably.
She wanted to know all the things that real tourists want to know, and Jack forgot that he hated to answer foolish questions.

The piles of empty coal-oil cans, for instance--she should have known that they had been packed up there full, to run the oil stove in the corner.

The spring--he had to take his bucket and go down with her and show her where the spring was, but he did not seem to mind that, either.

The flag, whipping over the station on its short staff, interested her too, and he helped her guess how long it would be before the stars and stripes snapped themselves to ribbons.