First at the North Pole

a-goin' to do

mp, Uncle Si. I hardly think Mr. Storburgh will ha

inued Josiah Graham, as he settled himself more c

aham gave something of a sigh. "Seems to me there are mo

drawing up his bootless feet on the rungs of his chair, and spreading out hi

sterday, and they told him they were la

want to work. He'd rather fool his time

nd hunting pays, sometimes. Last week he got a fine deer and on

to be a-lazin' your time away in the woods,-I want you to grow up s

asked the boy anxiously, as he gazed at the large

as I'm fit. But I can't do nuthin with my f

eaten so well the past week. And you've walked c

, an' it's up to you as a dootiful nevvy to git work an' support us both. Now you jest trot off to the Storburgh camp, an' don't you

osed suddenly and he turned away. In silence he drew off his slippers, donned his big boots, and put on his overcoat and his

siah Graham, with his eyes on the gun.

ply. "But if I come across any game on th

e! Rather loaf around the

d then he stopped short, turned on his heel, and walked f

d out into the snow Andy felt as if he never wanted t

s he trudged off. "He's as able to work as I am. He always was la

chest and muscles. His face was a round one, and usually good to look at,

. His mother had been taken away when he was a small lad, and then he and his father had left town and come to live in the big c

been left utterly alone, there being no near neighbors and no relatives to take care of the orphan. True, he had been

as an older half-brother to Andy's father, and the boy had often heard of him as a shiftless, lazy ne'er-do-well, who drifted from one town to another, seldom

val. "A young feller like him needs a guardeen." And then he had his trunk carted to the cabi

n a position as time-keeper at one of the lumber camps, where Andy was employed as a chopper. But s

the youth knew better. Then he got into a quarrel with the

e did not do a stroke extra, and it fell to Andy's share to sweep, and wash dishes,

hile I am." This led to a lively quarrel. After that Josiah Graham did make up the bed a few times, but usually

raham had already gotten possession of the fifteen hundred dollars left by Andy's father, but this was lost in a wildcat speculation in lumber

told Josiah Graham. "That will buy those tablets you t

nd then, when Andy still refused, the uncle waited until pay-day and went to the lumber camp and col

and he was constantly "nagging" Andy to go and do something. He was perfectly able to look for work himself, but was too indolent to make the effort. He preferred to sit in front o

other Andy Graham. I think the boy could have done better without him." And this verdict was shar

his son some papers referring to the land, telling him to beware or some "lumber sharks" would get the better of him and take his property away. Andy now had these papers hidden in a box under his bed. He had not told his uncle of th

have the money, I'll go down to Bangor or Portland and get a lawyer to look into the matter

d low three deer and a great variety of small game. One of the deer had been brought down on a windy day and at long range, and of that shot he was justly pr

ing nothing, Uncle Si to the contrary. Maybe I can get Chet to go along. I don't think he has anything else to do. Somehow or other,

rch, and a score of houses. As he approached the settlement he saw a horse and cutter coming toward h

he youth, and the horse soon came to a halt. "Say, can

the roads," a

ere is a

eyond that fringe

s the be

he Ridge do you

e called the

e the other road. You wo

at? I don't want to

g myself," added Andy. He saw that the cut

hunting

s year. I got a fine big deer up there. Maybe

employme

s,

" said the man, and started to turn the cutter back t

then he watched the turnout swing aro

ces under which he was to meet this man again