A “monster street procession” was announced for the next morning, and the Bolton boys and girls lay awake as if it were the Fourth of July.
Sonny Boy had received a large square ticket, marked “Season,” and “Complimentary,” and in the same envelope was a slip of paper on which was written, “Ask for J. Simpkins at the door.”
J. Simpkins was, of course, Sonny Boy’s friend, the Wild Man.
Aunt Kate said she felt doubtful about “that Wild Man business,” and she wrote to her husband about it.
“It won’t do him any harm to learn to be a Wild Man.” That was Uncle William’s answer; and Sonny Boy thought he was a very sensible man.
Aunt Kate also wrote to Mamma Plummer about the Wild Man and the buffalo, although she didn’t tell Sonny Boy of that. And Mamma Plummer answered, “Sonny Boy could never learn to be a wild man; the dear boy is so quiet. And he would be scared to death at the sight of a buffalo.”
Mamma Plummer did not quite understand her Sonny Boy.
“OTTO HAD HIS ONE GOOD TIME.”