Chapter 23
Looking up, Sam's glance rested on a young man, of rustic dress and manners, which made him seem quite out of place in a fashionable hotel. "No," answered Sam. "I am a stranger in Boston. I came from New York." "You don't say! It's an all-fired big city, isn't it?" said the countryman. "It is very large," said Sam, patronizingly. "I live in the country," said the other***** needlessly, so Sam thought"up in New Hampshire. I've come down here to get a job." "So have I," responded Sam, with new interest in his companion. "Are you boardin' here?" asked the countryman. "No; I am going to try to find a boarding-place. The prices are too steep here." "Let me go with you," said the young man, eagerly. Sam thought, on the whole, it would be pleasanter to have company, and accepted this pr
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