"Oh, Jerry," he cried, "please take me in!"
Jerry stopped, and asked, "Who are ye?"
"I'm Johnny," said our small hero, quite meekly.
"And where may ye be bound to, Johnny?" said Jerry.
"To the depot. I'm going to New York," said Johnny, who thought this a mild way to tell Jerry he was running away.
"This road niver took any one to the depot, Jacky. If I hadn't come this way, yer'd been froze stiff in the mornin'."
Here Jerry rolled his eyes in a dreadful manner, and trembled like one terribly frightened. Johnny would have cried hard, but he remembered how brave Jerry was when he ran away, so he winked hard to keep back the tears, and said:
"Do you think I shall 'froze' now, Jerry?"
Jerry thought not, if he minded him. So he lifted him into the sleigh, and they drove on.
"Is this the depot?" asked Johnny, when they stopped.