Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE TOUR IS PLANNED MA, why did you speak of your car bein’ in London? You know durn well it ain’t! exclaimed Mr. Alexander, as he soaped his head and gurgled in the water, then he ducked it up and down in the basin. That’s my business ! If I plan it that way to get acquainted with a lot of fine folks, why should you care?
/ don’t care, but I diden’ know you thought these folks so fine. I heard you say they was only decorators, argued her spouse. Ebeneezer, there are times when I could just choke you?you are so thick! exclaimed Mrs. Alexander, impatiently. Mebbe I’m thick, Ma, but I can’t see how you can drive a party across England when your old car is on second-hand sale out in Denver!
That proves you’re thick?if you can’t see how ! I am going straight to a shop, in London, tomorrow, where I can buy a car exactly the sameas mine?only it will be up-to-date with self- starter and all. Then you can drive it back here and we will show the folks a seven-passenger car that we owned long ago. As Mr. Alexander swabbed his dripping face and hair on a damask towel, he shook his head dubiously. Well, these days, a hull lot of stuff goes, but I always said such a game as you’re playin’ was fibbin’ and that’s callin’ it by a polite name, too. Mrs. Alexander humped her shoulders angrily and said: You are the most aggravating man! I s'pose you’ll tell everyone we know, all about my plan to get a car in a hurry.
Oh no, I won’t tell no one, ‘cause I don’t want folks to believe you ain’t as honest as you pretend to be, said he meekly. After that he wondered what he had said to anger his wife so that she would not speak to him; and when he asked her to help him with his collar-button, she ignored him entirely. Later, when he had troubl…
