"David Fletcher. I am visiting at my uncle's, Ferguson Berry."
"Humph! Yes, I know him."
"We boys, sir, wanted to know if you would let us--"
"What boys?"
"Oh, Jimmy Davis, John Richards--"
"I know those."
"Dick Pray---"
"Pray?"
"He is visiting his cousin, Samuel Whittles."
"Oh yes; I've seen him in the post-office. Curly-haired boy; struts as if he owned all Shipton."