"Though what he expects me to do with a hunting knife is more than I canguess," laughed Bob.

CHAPTER V

A REGULAR CR0SS-PATCH

"Be sure you send me a postal from Washington. I never knew anybody fromthere before," exclaimed Grandma Watterby earnestly.

"And don't get off the train unless you know how long it really is going tostop," advised Will Watterby.

"Do you skinnyk you ate enough breakfast?" his wife asked anxiously.