The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets
u young scamp?" demanded
a minute or two,"
two!" ejacula
id Sam. "You see I aint got
got through six hills all the m
cat came along-" S
pted the deacon. "She didn
I'd chase her ou
at
ome of the potatoes," said Sam, a
hase her out of the field, whe
come back, so I chas
ou cat
come round here again," said Sam, in the to
come ri
u see I was pretty tire
catch you in half a minute," said the old man, with justifiable sa
strations. But his guardian was not a man of violence, and did not propose to i
no violence was intended, and hoping to escape
ter," said
yet) went to work with remarkable energy, to the imminent danger o
ast enough
d we'll work along together. Take car
han he had ever done before in his life. He began to think it was no joke,
he thought. "I don't like workin
?" he asked, after a while. "Won't
aid the
t see w
loosened around them, and hea
of trouble
," said the deaco
es like apples," said Sam. "Th
doin's, Samuel," said the deacon, s
derin', that wa
said the old man, indulging in a
acon's foot with his descending hoe. Unfortunately, the deaco
d foot from the ground, while a spasm of anguish contract
ou?" asked Sa
acon, using, in his excitement, words whi
k it was your
re careful next time
l," sa
cumstances, thought it best not to refer to the matter. But at last the welcome sound o
el," said the deacon. "W
ith alacrity, throwing d
and carry it with y
re any more to-day!" s
oe in the fields. Some cat might come along a
idea of a cat stealing a hoe, and
reat satisfaction, saw on one side a pie like that which had tempted him the night before.
of meat and potatoes. When that was desp
cleared h
have no pie, M
or his misdeeds of the ni
my sleep," he said, with a b
hat," said
, then?" as
his mornin', and was gone nigh o
Deacon Hopkins," said
serve any di
m, who could not bear to lose so
I mean. He that will n
nough afterwards
ed well part of the time, so I gave you part
e more meat, th
esitating. "You need streng
sm this afternoon instead of
their place. The afternoon is for work; the even
t to work all the time? A good many people, older than Sam, are of the same opinion, and it is not wholly without reason; but then, it should be bo
. He placed his hand on his stomach, and b
atter?" asked
, screwing up his face
," said Mrs. Hopk
afraid I'm going to be v
s, Martha?" asked the d
d such attacks before. Yes, you may lay down in your roo
f his little trick. It was very much pleasante
k in the old wo
changed his mind, as we sh