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"'Most breaks my heart to tell you," he said, "but I ain't the boy you're
expecting. I'm just taking a walk and I thought maybe you'd let me have a
drink. I've wanted one past the last three houses, but none looked as if
they'd have half such good, cool water as this."
"Now don't that beat the nation!" exclaimed the woman. "The Multiopolis
papers are just oozing sympathy for the poor city children who are wild
for woods and water; and when I'd got myself nerved up to try one and
thought it over till I was really anxious about it, and got my children
all worked up too, here for the second time Peter knocks off plowing and
goes to the trolley to meet one, and he doesn't come. I've got a notion to
write the editor of the _Herald_ and tell him my experience. I think it's
funny! But you wanted water, come this way."
Mickey followed a footpath white with pear petals around the big house and
standing beside a pump waited while the woman stepped to the back porch
for a cup. He took it, drinking slowly.


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