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He explained how fond he was of back-horse-saddle-riding , and declared his intention of some day having `` frickers , '' caressing the agent 's own sandy growth with great admiration . He tried to perform on the telegraph instrument and cried `` Boo '' with all his strength at a lady , peering in at the ticket window . Altogether , Elsmere found traveling very much to his taste . The noon express stopped for a minute , he was thrust aboard the last car , and a few minutes later , according to instructions , the newsboy put him off at Edgewater , with a cheery : `` Here y' are , Bub , and there 's Ma and Gramma . '' Elsmere had taken a fancy to the newsboy and did not at all wish to stop at Edgewater . He ran down the track after the retreating train , howling miserably . As for `` Ma and Gramma , '' they had been overtaken by the dispatch just as they were starting to drive out to the farm , and had come in great perplexity to the station .