He merely said that he came from 'over there,' and waved his hand to the south and east.

That was all.

He didn't seem to be alarmed because he was alone, and yet he apparently knew nothing of the country; he was lost in this terrible country where a man could wander for days without finding a house, and yet the boy was whistling as he walked! So Dad took him home and sent out letters all about--to the railroad in particular--to find out if such a boy was missing.
"He received no answer.

In the meantime he gave Dan a room in the house; and I remember how Dan sat at the table the first night--I was a very little girl then--and how I laughed at his strange way of eating.

His knife was the only thing he was interested in and he made it serve for knife, fork, and spoon, and he held the meat in his fingers while he cut it.