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"What!" he roared, driving in his spade, and beginning to dig with all

histo sendto send you away?"

"Yes"

"Why, what have you been a-doin' of?" he cried more fiercely than ever,

as he drove his spade into the earth

"Nothing at all"

"He wouldn't send you away for doing nothing at all," cried Ike, giving

an obstinate clod that he had turned up a tre it into soft o to Hampton with Mr Brownslass-houses"

"What, Old Brownsmith's brother Sol?"

"Yes," I said sadly, as I petted and caressed the cat

"He's a tartar and a tyrant, that's what he is," said Ike fiercely, and

he drove in his spade as if he lass," I said

"S away like ato-day," I said after a pause, and with all a boy's longing

for a sympathetic word or two

"Oh! are you?" he said sulkily

"Yes, and I don't knohen I shall get over here again"

"Course you don't," growled Ike, s that Ike would stretch out his great rough hand to , as if he were very cross

"I didn't know it till to-day, Ike," I said