“Everybody knows it—unless he lives in the country.”
“I guess that is the kind of talk you hear on Broadway.”
“It’s true, no matter where you hear it.”
“You say it is; that’s why you think it’s so.”
“No, sir. I say it because it is true, Dan. What does a squirrel do in the winter? Does he go to sleep the way the bears do, or does he——”
“I guess he does,” broke in Dan. “You can ask more questions than a four-year-old boy.”
“But you don’t answer me. If I lived all the year where you do I’d find out some of these things.”
“That’s all right. It’s a good way.”
“Of course it is.”
“Who printed the first newspaper in New York?”