A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . 204 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK There, it was rumored, natives and aliens alike slepttwenty hours out of the twenty-four; but this mayhave been slander. But let me begin at the beginning. A chum ofmine, whose final name was Smith (this was his name,in fact, and I stand ready to prove that the Smithfamily has ancient and honorable lineage, and thatone of the high and mighty Schepens of New Am-sterdam bore the name of Smith in the Holland ver-nacular), entered into a conspiracy with me to playhookey. We longed for t
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . 204 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK There, it was rumored, natives and aliens alike slepttwenty hours out of the twenty-four; but this mayhave been slander. But let me begin at the beginning. A chum ofmine, whose final name was Smith (this was his name,in fact, and I stand ready to prove that the Smithfamily has ancient and honorable lineage, and thatone of the high and mighty Schepens of New Am-sterdam bore the name of Smith in the Holland ver-nacular), entered into a conspiracy with me to playhookey. We longed for the country; we wanted tocatch some flounders; we had saved up sundry shil-,lings which were burning holes in our pockets, and wewere perfectly agreed that we could enjoy ourselvesin no way so well as in stealing a day from plans were laid in secrecy, and it nearly killed us,I remember, to keep the conspiracy to ourselves, soproud did we feel of our boyish boldness. The daywe had fixed upon came slowly, but it dawned glori-ously, and at the hour when Trinity School was o
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