"No'm! That's a funny name!" exclaimed the man and laughed till his eyes all crinkled up.
"No'm's not my name!" laughed Bobby. "No'm, I'm not lost, I'm hunting——" Again he remembered just in time and stopped.
"That's a secret, is it? Is your name, too?"
"Bobby North," he replied and smiled up at this man who laughed at him without making fun of him.
"Where do you live?"
"Way off—there," replied Bobby, pointing over the tops of the trees.
"Oh, up there! You've chosen a fine home—"
"He's one of the kids at Eller's place, Mr. Anning," interrupted the man with the whiskers.
"He's huntin' for his birthday which he was careless enough to lose," added Steve.