"John didn't like going home in the dark like," said the baker, with his little joke. "So I just come along to drive away the bogies."
"The more the merrier;--the more the merrier. Ruby 'll have enough for the two o' you, I'll go bail. So John Crumb's afraid of bogies;--is he? The more need he to have some 'un in his house to scart 'em away."
