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The old gentleman chuckled and finished his bread and ot tired of it at last, for I knew they flogged and locked up

the boy, and kept hiood; he

would run away He used to coate if it was open,

over the hen it was shut, and he never said a word, only hung

about like a dog

"I talked to hiood

lad, and learn, I would have him to work some day, and he stared at me

just as if he were some dumb animal, and when I had done and sent him

off, what do you think happened, Grant?"

"He caain as soon as he could get away, and at last, being a

very foolish sort of old man, I let hioes to school?"

"Never, Grant, I tried to send hiave that up I don't like beating boys"

I felt a curious shiver run through me as he said this, and I saw hi about Shock

"Then I triedhim clothes, had a bed