But,' says
he, a kind o' shuttin' his eyes so that she shouldn't see he was
lyin', 'we'll talk about that when we come back.'
"'If you see that team of little oxen,' says the big man, 'send 'em
'round to the front gate.'
"'All right,' says Jone; an' he let me down the outside of the wall
as if I had been a bag o' horse-feed.
"'But if the bank isn't open you can't pay for it when it does
come,' we heard the old lady a-sayin' as we hurried off.
"We didn't lose no time agoin' down to that station, an' it's lucky
we didn't, for a train for the city was comin' jus' as we got
there, an' we jumped aboard without havin' no time to buy tickets.
There wasn't many people in our car, an we got a seat together.
"'Now then,' says Jone, as the cars went abuzzin' along, 'I feel as
if I was really on a bridal-trip, which I mus' say I didn't at that
there asylum.'
"An' then I said: 'I should think not,' an' we both bust out a-
laughin', as well we might, feelin' sich a change of surroundin's.
"'Do you think,' says somebody behind us, when we'd got through
laughin', 'that if I was to send a boy up to the cashier he would
either come down or send me the key of the bank?'
"We both turned aroun' as quick as lightnin', an' if there wasn't
them two lunertics in the seat behind us!
"It nearly took our breaths away to see them settin' there, staring
at us with their thimble eyes, an' a-wearin' their little straw
hats, both alike.
"'How on the livin' earth did you two got here?' says I, as soon as
I could speak.
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