All the boys, including the little chap, came up around me, and two of them sat down quite familiarly on the grass.

I never had a more devoted audience.

I don't know what interesting event might have happened next, for the bold leader, who stood nearest, was becoming dangerously inflated with questions--I don't know what might have happened had we not been interrupted by the appearance of a Spectre in Black.

It appeared before us there in the broad daylight in the middle of a sunny afternoon while we were playing "Yankee Doodle." First I saw the top of a black hat rising over the rim of the hill.

This was followed quickly by a black tie, a long black coat, black trousers, and, finally, black shoes.