“For lookin’ at the Park.”
“But Tom an’ Bob invited me up here with them.”
“I can’t help that. It costs ten cents to come in, an’ that’s all there is to it. You wanter pay quick, or you’ll get inter trouble.”
“But they didn’t tell me anything ’bout it.”
“They live in town. It don’t cost them anything; but all fellers from the country have to pay.”
Josiah looked around eagerly in the hope that his friends might be in the immediate vicinity; but in this he was disappointed.
He could see no one whom he thought he might venture to ask for information, and the boy who claimed the right to collect money for sight-seeing was growing more and more impatient each instant.
“I’d rather wait till they come back.”
“Well, you can’t. I’ve got to go all the way ’round the lake in an hour, an’ if I have such trouble with every feller as I do with you, it’ll take me a week to fix things.”
The boy was standing directly in front of Josiah by this time, and looked so threatening that the visitor from Berry’s Corner did not dare to prolong the interview.