“Oh, where have you been,
Billy boy, Billy boy?
Oh, where have you been,
Charming Billy?
I’ve been to seek a wife,
For the pleasure of my life,
She’s a young thing,
And cannot leave her mother!”
came the mocking answer.
“If I could find the insolent fellow, I would cure him of prying into other people’s affairs. More trouble is made in this world by prying eyes and itching ears than any other one thing. That much I’ve learned in my short career. But there is nothing here except that box with the tin horn sticking out of the top. It must be someone is trying to play a practical joke on me.”