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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Help, Offut quick!" cried Furniss, as his head was jabbed into the midst of a box of coal. "He he'll kill me!" spluttered the discomfited man. But Fret Offut failed for good reasons to heed the supplications of his friend. The next instant Furniss managed to get a hold on Jack which enabled him to throw him upon the floor. "Go to South America, will you?" cried the exultant Furniss.
In this town he found work as a machinist at the princely income of four Spanish dollars a week. But this was better than nothing and he went to work with a hearty good will. He worked in Tocopilla steadily for a month. During the time he heard nothing from home or from Fret Offut.
Jack answered the question himself by opening his eyes, though he was still too bewildered to attempt to rise. "What did you do that for?" he demanded. "Do what?" questioned Fret Offut. "You know well enough. You fixed that bar so it would hit me." "Hear the boy talk!" came from Furniss. "It is true. If I get the chance " "Stop, you shan't get us into trouble," yelled the man, in a rage.
Fret Offut waited to see no more, but stole away unobserved by the stalwart iron workers, who crowded around their victorious companion with hearty congratulations. Jack had won the friendship of nearly all by his feat, while Henshaw at once boasted of the act.
Plum Plucky, standing on his shoulders, with Fret Offut, had he been living then and there, on his shoulders, could not have reached the top of the lowest plants! He saw indigo plants that amazed him for their size, and altogether it was such a sight as he had never seen. A short distance away he saw a field of oats which reared their heads into the air to a height of more than fifteen feet.
Offut, his former employer, had failed and cleared out. The young giant regarded thoughtfully the scanty opportunities of the village. He could hurl his great strength into the ax-head and make a good living but he had learned that such a use of it gave him a better appetite for sleep than study.
With an indistinct recollection of a dull sense of pain in his head, Jack knew no more until he was brought back to consciousness by the feeling of water around him and it slowly dawned upon him that he had been sent overboard from the ship into the sea by the blow from Fret Offut. It was too dark for him to see any distance, so he listened for some sound of the steamer.
"I'll grunt for you!" called Offut in derision. "Spit on your hands!" said a workman. Jack compressed his lips for a mighty effort, and his hands closed on the rim of the wheel, while he concentrated every atom of strength he had for the herculean task.
Flattering as all this was, the fact remained that he was defeated, and the result of the election brought him face to face with a very serious question. He was without means and without employment. Offut had failed and had gone away. What was he to do next?
Harry Needles had gone away to Springfield for Mr. Offut with a drove of hogs. Two other boys are with him. He is going to buy a new suit. He is a very proud boy. Joe and Betsey got back with the doctor at nine. That night Abe Lincoln came and sat up with us and gave us our medicine and kept the fire going.
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