"'Oh, we come by the same way you come--by the tem-per-ary stairs,'
says Mrs. Jackson. 'We thought if it was too late to draw any
money to-night, it might be well to be on hand bright an' early in
the mornin'. An' so we follered you two, as close as we could,
because we knew you could take us right to the very bank doors, an'
we didn't know the way ourselves, not never havin' had no occasion
to attend to nothin' of this kind before.'
"Jone an' I looked at each other, but we didn't speak for a minute.
"'Then,' says I, 'here's a pretty kittle o' fish.'
"'I should kinder say so,' says Jone. 'We've got these here two
lunertics on our hands, sure enough, for there ain't no train back
to Pokus tonight, an' I wouldn't go back with 'em if there was. We
must keep an eye on 'em till we can see the doctor to-morrow.'
"'I suppose we must,' said I, 'but this don't seem as much like a
bridal-trip as it did a while ago.'
"'You're right there,' says Jone.
"When the conductor came along we had to pay the fare of them two
lunertics, besides our own, for neither of 'em had a cent about
'em. When we got to town we went to a smallish hotel, near the
ferry, where Jone knowed the man who kep' it, who wouldn't bother
about none of us havin' a scrap of baggage, knowin' he'd get his
money all the same, out of either Jone or his father. The General
an' his sister looked a kind o' funny in their little straw hats
an' green carpet-slippers, an' the clerk didn't know whether he
hadn't forgot how to read writin' when the big man put down the
names of General Tom Thumb and Mrs.
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