"No."
"Got any folks?"
"If you mean wife and children, I haven't," answered our hero, with a smile.
"Ho, ho!" laughed the peddler. "I guess not. I mean father or mother, uncles or aunts, and such like."
"No, I am alone in the world."
"Sho! you don't say so. Well, that's a pity. Why, I've got forty-'leven cousins and a mother-in-law to boot. I'll sell her cheap."
"Never mind!" said Tony. "I won't deprive you of her."
"I'll tell you what," said the peddler, "I feel interested in you. I'll take you round with me for a day or two, and maybe I can get you a place. What do you say?"
"Yes, and thank you," said Tony.