He grinned, cleared his throat, and began to warble unexpectedly.
"Skyrider-r has flew into-o the blew Ta-da, da-da, da-daa-a-a-- No-obody knew what he aimed to do Till he went and said adieu.
"Says he, 'Good-bye, I aim to fly To foreign lands, ta da-a--'" "Oh, for gracious _sake_, Bud! I always knew you were queer at times, but I really didn't know you had fits.

So it was Skyrider riding off to call on Venus, was it?
I wish I had seen him start; but that's just my luck, of course.

Er--_where_ was he going?
Or didn't he say ?" "He didn't say.

But he shook hands with us and told us we had treated him white at times, and that some day he'd write--" "Oh, say! I got a letter he left for your father," Curley broke in.

"I'll git it and you can take it up to the house." He gave Mary V a mysterious look and went into the room where he slept.
Mary V followed him as far as the door, and saw Curley take two letters from under his pillow.