“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.
No; I’m only eighteen.”
“You’re as big as a man.”
“Yes, I’m pooty big,” said Abner, with a complacent grin. “I can do a man’s work.”