left me, so that he'd get a fair start. But I didn't like to say even
that for fear I'd have to tell what wasn't so, until he told me it was
all right, because I didn't know where we were, and he wouldn't tell me.

He told me he liked me very much and was sorry I wouldn't go with him,
and he divided the crackers and told me to sit still and not look until
I had counted 100. I did, and when I'd finished there wasn't any Henry
to be seen.

I ate a cracker, and started back down the road again, and now everybody
was up and I met men on the roads and dogs barked at me, and oh, how
long the road seemed!

I went on and on till I thought I should fall down, and I was so thirsty
I didn't know what to do.

By and by, I came to a place where there was a toll-gate, and then I
knew I was lost, for we hadn't passed any on the road coming up, and
besides I hadn't any money.

So I stood still and tried to think, but I felt hot and tired and my
head went round a little. Then I thought I'd go to the back door of the
tollhouse, and then maybe some one would tell me how to go and they
wouldn't have to feel so badly about telling me I couldn't get through
without any money. So I went round to the back yard and there was
nobody in it.

Then I went up to the kitchen door and knocked and nobody came, but I
heard a little voice at the kitchen window say, "Hey, boy, what do
you want?"