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"Two maidens," I said.
"All right," he laughed; "the more the merrier."
"And one of those fellows said I was a kid," I told him. "Anyway, if I took
a girl out, I'd know how to bring her back, that's one thing. Wait till I
see that fellow."
Harry just laughed and said he wouldn't miss it for anything. So we took
two lanterns and started off along the road that ran north, and pretty soon
we hit into the main road out of Haverstraw and came to the big white house
with the windmill. Pretty soon we hit into the cow path that led up through
the woods. It wasn't just like the fellow said, because it fizzled out in a
pasture. Anyway, across the pasture were thicker woods and we picked up the
mountain trail there. If he had told us that it started right near a big
stone, it would have saved us a lot of hunting around with our lanterns.
That's just the way it is with big fellows; they think they're so smart
that they don't know anything. Gee whiz, you didn't need a microscope to
see that rock, but he never even mentioned it over the 'phone.
One thing, who ever named that mountain Eagle's Nest ought to apologize to
the first eagle he meets.
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