"Amuse auntie with them."
"That I forbid you to do. No more fibs about the West to Mrs. Livingston. Do you want her to have a nervous fever?"
"Very well," remarks Ferdinand, contemplatively. "If you object to my instructing auntie, I will keep them for my own amusement and knowledge." Then he cries suddenly, "By George, wasn't that a buffalo?" and throws up the car window, and looks out excitedly, to the serious danger of his caput, for the train is running through a small town.
And Erma laughs and says, "No, it's a cow."
Just here the conductor comes in and makes everybody on the car alert and happy, for he cries: "Grand Island! Thirty minutes for supper!"
CHAPTER V.
THE GRAND ISLAND EATING-HOUSE.
But with this announcement comes another sensation to Miss Travenion.
Ollie Livingston has been engaged most of the afternoon trying to make the trip comfortable for his mother, for, whatever may be his other failings, he certainly is a dutiful and attentive son.