You want the ride in the country,
you want the walk, you _need_ the change and recreation. You are not a
real boy if you don't want that!"
"I'm so real, I'm two boys if _wanting_ it counts, but it doesn't!" said
Mickey. "You see I got a _job_ for evening. I'm promised. I'd rather do
what you want than anything I ever saw or heard of, except just this. I've
given my word, and I'm depended on. I couldn't give up this work, and I
wouldn't, if I could. Even golf ain't in it with this job that I'm on."
"What is your work Mickey?"
"Oh I ain't ever exactly certain," said Mickey. "Sometimes it is one
thing, sometimes it is another, but always it's something, and it's work
for a party I couldn't disappoint, not noways, not for all the golf in the
world."
"You are sure?" persisted Douglas.
"Dead sure with no changing," said Mickey.
"All right then. I'm sorry!" exclaimed Douglas.
"So am I," said Mickey. "But not about the job!"
Douglas laughed. "Well come along this evening and look on. I'll be back
before six and I'll run you where we did last night, if that is close your
home.
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