4/9 Ye 're quite a lad, ain't ye? How old be ye, anyhow ?" "Twenty," I answered, not a little mollified by his manner. "You must live near here, then ?" "Wal, no, but been sorter neighbor o' yourn fer a month er so back; stoppin' up at Hawkins's shebang, at the ford, on the Military Road, visitin'; but guess I never met up with none o' your folks afore. My name 's Burns, Ol' Tom Burns, late o' Connecticut. A sojer from out West left this yere letter fer yer father at Hawkins's place more nor a week ago. |