I hear Bill a-whistling.

Maybe he's got something else to tell me." The Smith boy will be profitable to the youth of the community.
* * * * * Barnes, the pedagogue, is a worthy man who has seen trouble.

Precisely what was the nature of the afflictions which had filled his face with furrows and given him the air of one who has been overburdened with sorrows was not revealed until Mr.Keyser told the story one evening at the grocery-store.

Whether his narrative is strictly true or not is uncertain.

There is a bare possibility that Mr.Keyser may have exaggerated grossly a very simple fact.
"Nobody ever knew how it got in there," said Mr.Keyser, clasping his hands over his knee and spitting into the stove.