see him reading it by moonlight, with his spectacles on, you'll know
it's my friend."

"Oh, come back soon," I called, "and tell me more about it"; for he was
getting slowly and slowly away from me.

"I will," he shouted, "if I don't make a mistake and swallow the
witch-hazel."




CHAPTER V


ON THE DELAWARE

I thought I'd never get tired of having a river at our back door, but
one day I nearly hated the Delaware.

This is how it happened: Aunty Edith had a rowboat with a place in the
stern where you could fix a big sketching-umbrella, and go sketching
without getting too sunburnt; and when I was very good, 'specially good,
I could go with her.

When I was just ordinary good, and Aunty Edith wasn't using the boat,
Aunty May and I used to borrow it and play "Robinson Crusoe," and Aunty
May made the funniest "Man Friday" you ever saw. She would pretend not
to know any language but "glub-glub," and so I had to teach her the
names of things and she would shake all her hair down and dance a