Page 18 - Adventures of Peterkin Paul

'■ A lii I " he cried joyfully, " Who C3H this be?
Three with new rubber boots, and a sled just like
Why, he hns rubber boots and a sled, just like inc I
mine;
And the fourth— KOUIlds ! What big fc4il ! muit be
number nine ]
N<;vi:r mint!, the more af us the mtrritrr, that's
Said ittile Miltiades Pcterkiu Paul.

Just then s o ie one laughtd, ai>d there, dose by his
side,
Stood benjamin Franklin, liis brother, who cried :
“ Well, where have you been nil the morning, 1
pray ?
Vou're ^ pretty youn^ felloiv, to get lost this way I
W h y , you sonaly don't think ynu will cfer get biick,
Walking round in a circle upon vour own truck I"

9 e is to the same p-laoe that 1 am, no doubt:
\ will fallow hii fuOtyttijiSi, and find tny way 011!.'’

So he kept his eyes fixed on the track on the snow,
And lie hurried along For ten minutes or so,
When, strange to relate, the first thing; that he kufcw,
Iiiite a d of ene Ltiiek he was following / a ^ ,—
EfcCh with nthv rubber boats ^nil n sledr “ It is efeesf
Thai mother chap's joined the first fallow just here —
Well, well, there"!! be tliTte to go sliding, that's, all/'
Said lEfth; Mil trad us Peterkin Paul,

So hi* ftill followed 0-1 quite si while, till he thcjughl,
“ It is time I came out somewhere,” [hen he stopped
short,
“ H alloo] What can this mean? ft seerns there nine For, you see, young Miltiades Peterkiu Paul
more ; H iil been fallowing himsrif all the M’hite — that is
In stead i f /itJif tracks, th^re are non/ |>lam\y f o u r / a ll I