le of sass'parilla and a five-cent cigar,
just to break the ice.'

"But that only made him mad.

"'You talk like a fish,' he says. 'I mean it. Why can't we go? It's
September, the Old Home House is shut up for the season, you and me's
done well--fur's profits are concerned--and we ought to have a change,
anyway. We've got to stay here in Orham all winter.'

"'Have you figgered out how much it's goin' to cost?' I asked him.

"Yes, he had. 'It won't be so awful expensive,' he says. 'I've got some
stock in the railroad and that'll give me a pass fur's Fall River. And
we can take a lunch to eat on the boat. And a stateroom's a dollar;
that's fifty cents apiece. And my daughter's goin' to Denboro on a
visit next week, so I'd have to pay board if I stayed to home. Come on,
Barzilla! don't be so tight with your money.'

"So I said I'd go, though I didn't have any pass, nor no daughter to
feed me free gratis for nothin' when I got back. And when we started,
on the followin' Monday, nothin' would do but we must be at the depot
at two o'clock so's not to miss the train, which left at quarter past
three.

"I didn't sleep much that night on the boat. For one thing, our
stateroom was a nice lively one, alongside of the paddle box and just
under the fog whistle; and for another, the supper that Jonadab had
brought, bein' mainly doughnuts and cheese, wa'n't the best cargo to
take to bed with you. But it didn't make much diff'rence, 'cause we
turned out at four, so's to see the scenery and git our money's worth.
What was left of the doughnuts and cheese we had for breakfast.

"We made the dock on time, and the next thing was to pick out a hotel.
I was for cruisin' along some of the main streets until we hove in sight
of a place that looked sociable and not too expensive. But no; Jonadab
had it all settled for me. We was goin' to the 'Wayfarer's Inn,' a
boardin' house where he'd put up once when he was mate of the Emma Snow.
He said 'twas a fine place and you could git as good ham and eggs there
as a body'd want to eat.

"So we set sail for the 'Wayfarer's,' and of all the times gittin' to a
place--don't talk! We asked no less than nine policemen and one hundred
and two other folks, and it cost us thirty cents in car fares, which
pretty nigh broke Jonadab's heart. However, we found it, finally, 'way
off amongst a nest of brick houses and peddler carts and children, and
it wa'n't the 'Wayfarer's Inn' no more, but was down in the