Cap'n Warren's wards . but she generally dont notice a joke until shetrips over it I get considerble fun out of Abbie, takeher by the large. New York! she says. Did any-body ever hear the beat of that? Do you callate NewYorks like South Denboro, where everybody knowseverybody else ? What are you plannin to do ? run up thefust man, woman or child you meet and ask em to tellyou where Bijah Warren lives? Or are you goin totrot from Dan to Beersheby, trustin to meet yournephew and niece on the way? I never in my borndays! Well, went on the captain, I told her that thelast suggestion werent such a
Cap'n Warren's wards . but she generally dont notice a joke until shetrips over it I get considerble fun out of Abbie, takeher by the large. New York! she says. Did any-body ever hear the beat of that? Do you callate NewYorks like South Denboro, where everybody knowseverybody else ? What are you plannin to do ? run up thefust man, woman or child you meet and ask em to tellyou where Bijah Warren lives? Or are you goin totrot from Dan to Beersheby, trustin to meet yournephew and niece on the way? I never in my borndays! Well, went on the captain, I told her that thelast suggestion werent such a bad one, but there wasone little objection to it. Considerin that I hadnt everlaid eyes on Steve and that I hadnt seen you since youwas a baby, the chances was against my recognizin youif we did meet. Ho, ho, ho! Finally I hinted that Imight look in the directory, and she got more recon-ciled to my startin. Honest, I do believe shed haveinsisted on takin me by the hand and leadin me to you,if I hadnt told her that. 60. The captain talked and talked. CAPN WARRENS WARDS So I did look in the directory and got the numberon Fifth Avenue where you used to be. I asked a poHce-man the nighest way to get there, and he said take abus. Last time I was in New York I rode in one ofthose Fifth Avenue omnibuses, and I never got such ajouncin in my hfe. The pavement then was round cob-ble stones, like some of the roads in Nantucket. I re-member I tried to ask a feller that set next to me some-thin or other, and I swan to man I couldnt get nothinout of my mouth but rattles. Metropolitan Museum,sounded like puttin in a ton of coal. I thought I wascomin apart, or my works was out of order, or some-thin, but when the feller tried t© answer he rattledjust as bad, so I realized twas the reglar disease and feltsome better. I never shall forget a fleshy woman —somethin like that Mrs. Dunn friend of yours, Caroline — that set opposite me. It give me the crawls to lookat her, her chins shook around
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