She lives all alone, and she'll think it's a ghost rapping." "Good! Come on.

Have you got some string ?" "Sure." So you see how poorly Bob remembered his promise of the night before, and with what thoughtlessness he again started to indulge in a prank--a prank which might throw a nervous woman into hysterics.

Yet in this Bob was just like thousands of other boys--he "didn't mean anything." The trouble was he did not think.
So the two boys, their heads full of the project of making a tic-tac, stole quietly through the village streets toward the cottage of the Widow Mooney..