Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy

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chases in the store, and Dab was thinking how the Morris house would look when it was finished; an

hered poor Dick Lee that morning, and he was now

uite young-came tripping along the side

ters! If I didn't

you? How you startled

y; and I meant to have a label on the collar,

exclaimed Jenny. "Why,

you it was me. Ca

hat a q

t, it won't do me any

d Jenny, "there's an othe

t's

y snappishly. "Think of your stopping me

"If you meet my old clothes anywhere you must c

don't doubt they look bette

playmate feeling as if he had had a little the worst of it. That was often the way with people who sto

e for a whistle; but she had hardly disappeared before he

name Dabn

I beli

Ford Foster,

ds?" suggested Dabney. "Or

in height, so that there was more point in the question than there

house to let any

f Mrs. Kinzer, behind him, much to Dab's surpr

sitated about trying a like experiment upon Mr. Dabney Kinzer; but he knew eno

w: "I wish to report to my father that I hav

u d

but she followed her exclamation with a dozen questions, all of which he answer

neighborhood will be ready for him next week. I'll show it to him when he come

before Ford Foster quite recovered from

id not tell me a word about the house, after all. I must make some mo

as they drove along, "y

use, wou

don't mean to have

at deal of light brok

d up the ponies. "Well, there'll be room enough for

dy beside him; and she found "errands" enough for him, during the remainde

his satisfaction. He took the afternoon train for the city, almost convinced that, much as he undoubtedl

t the empty cars had to be taken along all the same, for the benefit of the crowds who would be coming out later in the afternoon and in the eveni

feet on it. It was almost like lying down, for a boy of his length; and it was t

hat was

e was a p

ing where he chose, just then; and not only had he chosen to walk upon the railroad-track,

and the engineer saw him, but it would have been well for

that moment. "It sounds more like the squ

nd himself tumbled all in a heap, on the seat where his feet had been. Then

feet. "I wouldn't have missed it for any thing. I

the engineer and conductor of the train, looking at the battered engine, as it lay upon its side in a deep ditch. The baggage-car, just behind it, was broken

the rest seemed much disposed to say unkind things about him, and

" said Ford to the conductor, a litt

ng man, I don't suppose the city could get along without you over night. The junction with th

few minutes more there was a long, straggling procession of uncomfortable people, marching by the side of the railway-track, in t

ll of them managed to walk the two miles to th

nd he was likely to reach home in season, in

so important an adventure for any thing he could think of. It almost sounded once or twice as if he took to himself no sm

streets of the great city. There was no wonder at all that wise people should wish to get out of such a place in such hot weather. Still it was

k of boarding-house information, as well as with a firm persuasion that there was little more to be had,-un

, with a fair, sweet-faced girl of about nineteen, were sitting near an open window, very much as if they were waiting for somebod

s mother. And yet he had no difficulty whatever in expressing his respec

s. Foster, "are you sure

not a bone broken of anybody, b

d Annie. "Have you any idea, fathe

an trust Ford not to miss any opportunity. He's jus

h confidence. He had just such a square, active, bustling sort of body, several sizes larger; with just such ke

e acquainted with either son or father, there would hav

, or even her husband's assurances, to relieve the motherly anxiety of g

e house. It had not so much as occurred to him that his mother would hear of the disaster to the pig and the railway-train until he himself should tell her; and so he had made sure of his supper down stairs before reporting hi

rd, after his car-ride, and h

of new and wonderful experiences, to be more than a litt

imed, when he got a cha

aid much more if I'd

g!" sai

He and the engine won't go ho

," said his mother gently.

r broke in, almost

r errand? or shall I have to see about

d, taking out his watch. "I've kept an exact account

lroading," said his

nnie, "did you find

w I'm sure you're safe, I do

told me to hunt for. Neither too large nor too small. I've only see

y of questions t

s might have made Mrs. Kinzer herself open her eyes, for the

father to look at him with an expres

I was just like him, at his age

gentleman had performed his errand in the country; and Mr. Foster promptly decided to go