"I guess he don't know any other tune."
"You like that tune so well, I will play you 'Washington's March;'" and the funny old fiddler, with a great flourish, began to play again; but still it was "Yankee Doodle."
And so he went on saying he would play many different tunes, but he played nothing but "Yankee Doodle."
"Can't you tell us a story now?" asked Charley Green.
"O, yes, my little man, I can tell you a story. What shall it be?"
"Are you a soldier or a sailor?"
"Neither, my boy."
"The story! the story!" shouted the boys, very much excited.
"Some years ago I was in New York," the old man commenced.
"Did you see me there?" demanded Tommy Woggs.