Russ, wears short pants. So that's why Zip is like one."
"Oh, I see!" laughed Russ. "That's pretty good. I know a riddle too,
Laddie."
"What is it?"
"This. What makes a miller wear a white hat?"
Laddie thought over this for a moment or two and then said:
"He wears a white hat so the flour dust won't show so plain."
"Nope; that isn't it," Russ declared.
"Is it because nobody would sell him a black hat?" asked Laddie.
"Nope. Shall I tell you the answer?"
"No. Let me guess!" begged the smaller boy.
He gave several other answers, none of which, Russ said, was right, and at
last Laddie murmured:
"I give up! Why does a miller wear a white hat?"
"To keep his head warm, same as anybody else!" laughed Russ. "Tom told me
that riddle, too," he added.
"Well," said Laddie slowly, as he took off his own hat to run his fingers
through his hair, "that isn't as good a riddle as the one about Zip's
breath coming in short pants."
"Maybe not. But it's harder to guess," said Russ.
Then the two boys, after waiting for Zip's breath to come out of short
pants--that is, waiting for him to get rested--went for a ride in the
dog-cart.
As they were going down the road they saw, coming toward them, a man with
bright red hair. He was driving a horse and carriage.
"There's Mr. Hurd," said Russ. "He's the one we thought was the tramp
lumberman that got daddy's real estate papers."
"I see him," said Laddie. "Look! He's waving to us! Let's go over and see
what he wants."
Mr. Hurd was driving down a cross road, and waited for the boys to come up
to him.
"Hello, Russ and Laddie!" he called, "I've got some news for you!"
"News?" asked Russ.
"Yes. Do you remember when you took me for the red-haired lumberman that
you thought had your father's papers: Remember that?"
"Yes," answered Russ, "I do. But you weren't him. I wish we could find
him."
"Maybe you can," said Mr. Hurd, and Russ looked at him in a queer way.
What did Mr. Hurd mean?
CHAPTER XXII
OFF ON
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.