“That is true.”
“And you offered to lend pop one hundred dollars.”
“But he declined.”
“It’ll be all the same if you lend it to me,” said Noah, eagerly.
“What do you want to do with it?”
“I want to buy a bicycle. I can get a safety, second-hand, for seventy-five dollars.”
“How could you pay me back?”
“I guess I can get the money out of father next year. Do now, that’s a good fellow.”
“If you can get for me your father’s note of hand for the money and interest, say on a year’s time, I might consent to do it.”
“But he won’t give it to me.”