"He couldn't have!" muttered Shadow. "He wouldn't dare. He couldn't
have!"
But Happy Jack had. He had gone inside that window.
CHAPTER XXVI
FARMER BROWN'S BOY WAKES WITH A START
Never think another crazy just because it happens you
Never've heard of just the thing that they have started out to do.
_Happy Jack._
Isn't it queer how hard it seems to be for some boys to go to bed at the
proper time and how much harder it is for them to get up in the morning?
It was just so with Farmer Brown's boy. I suppose he wouldn't have been
a real boy if it hadn't been so. Of course, while he was sick with the
mumps, he didn't have to get up, and while he was getting over the
mumps his mother let him sleep as long as he wanted to in the morning.
That was very nice, but it made it all the harder to get up when he
should after he was well again. In summer it wasn't so bad getting up
early, but in winter--well, that was the one thing about winter that
Farmer Brown's boy didn't like.
On this particular morning Farmer Brown had called him, and he had
replied with a sleepy "All right.
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