“Thought you said you weren’t in no hurry,” objected the farmer.
“Well, if you call that being in a hurry,” Dan replied, “I guess we lied to you. If you happen to have any idea where the Jericho road is——”
“Well, I’d oughter, seems to me. I live on it. Are you all going?”
“Every last one of us,” answered Nelson.
“Tell him how old we are and the family history and let’s get on,” suggested Dan sotto voce.
“Well, there’s four of you, eh?”
“I think so.” Bob made pretense of counting the assembly with much difficulty. “Stand still, Tom, till I count you. Yes, sir, that’s right; there are four of us.”
“Well, two of you could sit on the seat with me and two of you could kind of hang out behind, I guess.”
“Oh, much obliged,” said Bob. “But really we’d rather walk. We’re taking a walking trip down the island.”
“You don’t say! Well, you go back there about a half a mile and you’ll find a road crossing the track. You take that until you fetch the country road going to your right. Keep along that and it’s about nine miles to Jericho.”