“I suppose,” said Dick, “it means that if the owner isn’t inside he’s up there on top.”
“He should have said ‘Inquire above or below,’ then,” said Roy.
“Let’s change it for him,” Chub proposed genially. But Roy glanced at the dog and shook his head.
“There’s no sense in carrying philanthropy too far,” he answered. “We’ll let him make his own changes.”
“I wish we could see inside of it,” said Dick. “Do you suppose he’s in there? We might say we wanted to purchase and would like to look it over first.”
“That’s so,” said Chub. “We could tell him we were particular about the drains. I wonder how much land goes with it?”
“Just what’s in the flower-boxes, I suppose,” answered Roy.
“Let’s call out and see if he’s at home,” whispered Harry.
“All right; you shout,” Roy said. But Harry told him it wasn’t a lady’s place to shout.
“I guess if he was at home,” remarked Dick, “he’d been out here five minutes ago to see what the trouble was; Snip’s been making enough racket to wake the dead.”