Blow the Man Down - A Romance of the Coast - Page 131/334

"Father! Please don't fib."

"It's just as I remember it, dear. 'Especial,' he says. I remember that!

'Especial,' he says. And he looked mighty sad, dear, mighty sad." He

put his arm about her. "There are a lot of sad things in this world for

everybody, Polly. Sometimes things get so blamed mixed up that I feel

like going off and climbing a tree!"