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"Not a bit of it!" "Then what's all that blood beside your ear?" Mr. Polly felt. "Quite a cut! Funny how one overlooks things! Heated moments! He must have done that when he jabbed about with those bottles. Hullo, Kiddy! You venturing downstairs again?" "Ain't he killed you?" asked the little girl. "Well!" "I wish I'd seen more of the fighting." "Didn't you?"
"What do you know about blowing up a boathouse?" asked Carl. "I don't know much about doing the job. But I saw one blown up not long ago, and " "And what?" came eagerly from Ham and Carl. "And I know you two boys did the job," finished Kiddy Leech, significantly. For the next moment Ham Spink and Carl Dudder stared at the tramp in amazement not unmixed with terror.
And if you are doubtful at all, just remember that hopeful little mother of yours who sent you over to get what she had never been able to have for herself, and who planned this for you from the time you were a kiddy and she named you Harmony. "I'm not saying good-bye. I can't.
Kiddy Katydid and his relatives were in possession of a secret that none of the Pleasant Valley folk can solve, though they waste much time and energy trying to guess it. Even to this day it is doubtful if anyone other than Kiddie himself really knows what Katy did! But his friends are a curious lot and they work their brains over-time to think of some scheme to make Kiddie tell.
"Ven yer pockets it at the Cock and Bottle, my kiddy, yer won't find much of it left o' Sunday mornings." "Don't his mother know he's out?" asked another, "and won't she know it "Ven he's sitting in his glory Half-price at the Victory. "Oh! no, ve never mentions her her name is never heard. Certainly not, by no means. Why should it?"
And then Giant and Whopper also handed over twenty-five cents each, making a dollar in all. "Much obliged," said Kiddy Leech, pocketing the silver with satisfaction. "But if you don't mind, I won't start out until about noon time. By then I reckon my back will I feel better." "Very well, make it noon then," said Snap. Giant and Whopper were soon down on the ice.
"We are gentlemen's sons," added Ham, drawing himself up proudly. "Say, do gentlemen's sons blow up boathouses?" asked Kiddy Leech, in a low but distinct tone. At this question consternation seemed to seize both Ham Spink and Carl Dudder, and their faces grew pale as they stared at the tramp. "Wha what's that?" stammered Ham, faintly. "I asked you if gentlemen's sons blew up boathouses."
The children were dressed in neat pretty frocks such as any beloved children would wear, with bright hair ribbons and neckties, and each with an individuality of its own. The room was sunny and bright, with a great playhouse at one end, with real windows and furniture in it and all sorts of toboggan slides and swings and kiddy cars and everything to delight the soul of a child.
The truth about the doings of Ham Spink and Carl Dudder soon leaked out, so far as our friends were concerned, although the matter was kept from the general public. Both Mr. Spink and Mr. Dudder were anxious that no charge of theft should be made against Kiddy Leech, so the tramp was merely given thirty days in jail for vagrancy, and was then given some money by Mr.
"He pulled the knife that is now in my desk from his pocket, spat on it, and flung it up. 'Dry, the kid's ours, Meggy, he explained; 'wet, he goes to Gavin, I clinched my fist to -But what was the use? He caught the knife, and showed it to me. "'Dry, he said triumphantly; 'so he is ours, Meggy. Kiddy, catch the knife. It is yours; and, mind, you have changed dads.
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