"Was you ever in New York?" asked Abner.
"Do you mean the city of New York? Yes."
"I'd like to see it," said Abner, regarding Tony with new respect. "I've heard a sight about it. It's powerful big, isn't it?"
"It's very large."
"There's as many as a thousand houses, isn't there?"
"There's a hundred thousand, I should think," answered Tony.
"Sho? you don't say so!" exclaimed Abner, awestruck. "I'd like to go there."
"Didn't you ever visit the city?"
"No; I never traveled any. I never was more'n fifteen miles from home. Dad wouldn't let me. When I'm a man, I'm bound to see the world."
"Ain't you a man now?" inquired Tony, surveying his Herculean proportions with astonishment.