Now, what would YOU, in your broad statesmanlike views of things generally, advise ?" Quite convinced of the stranger's mental unsoundness, the boy glanced again at his half-dollar, as if to make sure of its integrity, pocketed it doubtfully, and turned away.
"Where are you going ?" said Hamlin, resuming his seat with the agility of a circus-rider, and spurring forward.
"To Green Springs, where I live, two miles over the ridge on the far slope,"-- indicating the direction.
"Ah!" said Jack, with thoughtful gravity.

"Well, kindly give my love to your sister, will you ?" "George Washington didn't have no sister," said the boy, cunningly.
"Can I have been mistaken ?" said Hamlin, lifting his hand to his forehead with grieved accents.

"Then it seems YOU have.

Kindly give her my love." "Which one ?" asked the boy, with a swift glance of mischief.

"I've got four." "The one that's like you," returned Hamlin, with prompt exactitude.
"Now, where's the 'bresh' you spoke of ?" "Keep along the edge until you come to the log-slide.