Good-bye!' An' off he went.
"Well, we kep' straight on to the doctor's, an' glad we was when we got there, an' mad he was when we lef' Mrs.Jackson an' the General on his hands, for we wouldn't have no more to do with 'em, an' he couldn't help undertaking' to see that they got back to the asylum.

I thought at first he wouldn't lift a finger to get us our trunk; but he cooled down after a bit, an' said he hoped we'd try some different kind of institution for the rest of our trip, which we said we thought we would.
"That afternoon we gawked around, a-lookin' at all the outside shows, for Jone said he'd have to be pretty careful of his money now, an' he was glad when I told him I had two free tickets in my pocket for a show in the evenin.' "As we was a-walkin' down to the ferry, after supper, says he: "'Suppose you let me have a look at them tickets.' "So I hands 'em to him.

He reads one of 'em, and then he reads the other, which he needn't 'a' done, for they was both alike, an' then he turns to me, an' says he: "'What kind of a man is your boarder-as-was ?' "It wasn't the easiest thing in the world to say jus' what he was, but I give Jone the idea, in a general sort of way, that he was pretty lively.
"'So I should think,' says he.

'He's been tryin' a trick on us, and sendin' us to the wrong place.

It's rather late in the season for a show of the kind, but the place we ought to go to is a potato-field.' "'What on earth are you talkin' about ?' says I, dumbfoundered.
"'Well,' says he, 'it's a trick he's been playin'.