“Why, what makes you think he has?”
“He never has been known to tell anything as it is. He sees things a little different from what they really are. You say that’s ‘imagination.’ Perhaps it is, but we poor chaps up here in the country don’t call it by that name exactly.”
“What do you call it?” inquired Walter laughingly.
“We just say Si Slater is the biggest liar in seven counties.”
“Is Si as fat as ever? I haven’t seen him since I came.”
“Fatter. You’ll see him to-morrow—and hear him too.”
“What do you mean?”
“What I say.”
“Is Si a ‘rooter’?”
“I guess so, though I’m sure I don’t know what a ‘rooter’ is.”