ross
ourselves. Let us go and look at it, Rollo, and see how much there is."

So the boys went off with great eagerness to look at the baggage. In a
few minutes they returned again, wearing very bright and animated
countenances.

"Yes, sir," said Waldron, "we can take it all just as well as not. I can
take your valise, and Rollo can take my things, and I can carry your
knapsack under my arm."

"O, I am willing to help," said Mr. George. "I can help in carrying the
things, provided I do not have any _care_. If you will count up all the
things that are to go, and see that they all do go, and then count them
again when we get into the railway carriage, so as to be sure that they
are all there, and thus save me from responsibility, that is all I ask,
and I will carry any thing you choose to give me."

"Well, sir," said Waldron.

Indeed, Waldron was very much pleased to find how completely Mr. George
was putting the business under his and Rollo's charge.

"And now," said Mr. George, "I think you had better tell your father and
mother about this plan of our going ashore at Greenock. They may like
to do so, too."

"O, they know all about it," said Waldron, "and they are going. Mother
says that she has had enough of the steamer."

Not long after this the steamer arrived at Greenock, and made fast to
the pier. A large number of the passengers went ashore. The rain had
ceased, which was very fortunate for those who were to walk to the
station; though, of course, the streets were still wet. As soon as the
boat was made fast, Mr. George went to the plank, and there he found
Waldron and Rollo ready, with the baggage in their hands. Mr. George
took his valise, though at first Waldron was quite unwilling to give it
up.

"O, yes," said Mr. George; "I have no objection to hard work. What I
don't like is care. If you and Rollo will take the care off my mind,
that is all I ask."

"Well," said Waldron, "we will. And now I wonder which way we must go,
to get to the station."

"I am sure I don't know," said Mr. George. As he said this his
countenance assumed a vacant and indifferent expression, as if he
considered that the finding of the way to the station was no concern of
his.

"Ah!" exclaimed Waldron, "this is the way. See!" So saying, Waldron
pointed to a sign put up near the end of the pier, with the words
RAILROAD STATION painted upon it, and a hand indicating the way to go.

As the sun had now come out, the party had