"How pleasant it seems," he said, "to get back on the old Tappan Zee.

Everything looks so familiar--" "You have been here before, then ?" enquired the man pulling the stern oar, and who had acted as spokesman.
"Yes," returned the stranger.

"My home was just out of Nyack not many years ago.

I may find things changed there now.

Do you know many people over there ?" "Why yes--nearly everybody--" "Dominie Payson--is he living ?" "If he didn't die since yesterday.