“I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings, Vermont,” replied Bob, enjoying greatly his own good natured satire.
“No, not at all, Bob Hunter, but until I saw your joke I thought surely you were insane.”
“Well, you see, I thought you needed something to kinder knock the blues that you brought back with you tonight—’tain’t much fun to have ’em, is it? Sometimes I get ’em myself, so I know what they’re like. But now to be honest, and not fool no more, didn’t you get no show today?”
“No, not the least bit of encouragement,” replied Herbert.
“And you kept up the hunt all day?”
“Yes.”
“I ought ter told you that that warn’t no use.”
“How is that?”
“Why, don’t you see, it’s the first fellers what gets the jobs—them as gets round early.”