Excerpts from the Book The Major chuckled again, still holding out his hand. Had she been eighty instead of eight, the gesture could not have expressed more deference. "So you don't like old men any better than boys!" he exclaimed. "Oh, yes, sir, I do-heaps," said Betty. She transferred the frog's foot to her left hand, and gave him her right one. "When I marry, I'm going to marry a very old gentleman-as old as you," she added flatteringly. This book is a Fiction, very nicely penned by the author. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.