THE SILVER LAKE STORIES. 53

have a very pleasant time with him.
Well, you see, he would walk out, and
I used to have to go to lead him.”

“Why was that?”

“ Why didn’t I tell you he was blind?
Oh yes, mom, blind as a bat, and he
was deaf, too, a little, but not so deaf
-as he pretended to be sometimes.
Well, one day I was leading him along,
and there came a great crowd of nai
and I got pushed away from him, and
when I was running to catch up to
him, what should I see but grandfather
making right for a trap-door in the side-
walk, which was open. Qh, how I
screamed ‘Grandfather! grandfather I’