Good-morning, Joe.

Day-day, Fuz.

See you again by and by." They all followed him, but they could see that there was something more hidden under the mirth of Joe and Fuz as they walked away; and they were hardly out of hearing before Dab Kinzer remarked,-- "Look a' here, boys, I move we don't give those two any fun at our expense." "How ?" asked Ford.
"If there's any thing at Mrs.Myers's that we don't like, we mustn't let them know it." "I's keep my mouf shet if I foun' de house was an ole eel-pot," said Dick emphatically; and Frank and Ford came out even more strongly.

They all seemed to feel as if some kind of a trick had been played upon them, to begin with.
However, it served to put them on their guard, and prevented any change of countenance among them when their knock at the front door of that house was answered, and the freckled face of Mrs.Myers beamed out upon them from under its thin, smooth, glistening thatch of carroty hair.

She was not a handsome woman, and she had a thin nose, and a narrow mouth, and very pale blue eyes; but she was all one smile of welcome as she stood in that doorway.
"Mrs.Myers ?" said Ford, with an extraordinary bow.