"Oh!"
"It's nice an' far, you know, an' I might meet Aladdin with the
wonderful lamp."
"Alas, Imp, I fear not," I answered, shaking my head; "and besides,
it will take a long, long time to get there, and where shall you
sleep at night?"
The Imp frowned harder than ever, staring straight before him as
one who wrestles with some mighty problem, then his brow cleared
and he spoke in this wise:
"Henceforth, Uncle Dick, my roof shall be the broad expanse of
heaven, an - an - wait a minute!" he broke off, and lugging
something from his pocket, disclosed a tattered, paper-covered
volume (the Imp's books are always tattered), and hastily turning
the pages, paused at a certain paragraph and read as follows:
"'Henceforth my roof shall be the broad expanse of heaven, an' all
tyrants shall learn to tremble at my name!' Doesn't that sound
fine, Uncle Dick? I tried to get Ben, you know, the gardener's
boy - to come an' live in the 'greenwood' with me a bit an' help
to make 'tyrants' tremble, but he said he was 'fraid his mother
might find him some day, an' he wouldn't, so I'm going to make
them tremble all by myself, unless you will come an' be Little
John, like you were once before - oh, do!"
Before I could answer, hearing footsteps, I looked round, and my
heart leaped, for there was Lisbeth coming down the path.
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