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put for him in the attic, and his meals provided for hilad?" I said

"Perhaps he was," said Old Brownset him to sleep in the bed, and he would not sit down to

his rew tired, and took to paying

hiements for one of the wooes there to sleep sometimes"

I noticed that he said so at me

the while Then he went on: "I've tried several tie is

apparently irreclai may be

done"

"I hope so," I said "It seems so dreadful to see a boy so--"

"So dirty and lost, as the north-country people call it, boy Ah, well,

let him have his way for a bit, and we'll see by and by! You say he has

not annoyed you?"

"No, no," I said; "I don't think he likes entle to shave"