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xcept at the times when he happened to be partaking of nourishment, or was fast asleep, and, even

s art he became an adept. When he and another child chanced to be left together there came, apparently from the ut

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an imp in all the length and breadth of his seven hells. I'm sick, sore and sorry whacking him, so I am, and before long I'll be hung on the hea

ed to h

l of it. Where he got his blackguardly ways from I'm not saying, but it wasn't from my side of the house anyway, so it wasn't, and that's a moral. Get o

s an old, criminal thief you were instructing, instead of a bit of a child that'll be growing

azing for combat. His father left the room with more expedition than decency. He did not stop to put on as much as his hat. He fled to the stream which ran through the meadow at the back of their house, and lay down in it, and in two seconds there was more

n the floor with a blanket wrapped about her he

ut poisoned lumps. A few days later it was found that she was b

rom nowhere in particular and hit a cat, located the first cause in a ditch. He bro

restless moaning woman was the touch of her son. All

him a chance now for wouldn't a child be a bit wild anyhow. Yo

the responsibly-whiskered miracle at whom mothers sit and laugh in secret delight. This towering, big-footed, hairy person! was he really the little boy who used to hide in her sk

cuffs. His feet would burst out of his boots. He grew out of everything but one. A man may outgr

e carried stones in his pockets. No tree cast so black a shadow in the sunlight as he did. There were stories of a bottle of paraffin oil and a cat that screeched in flames. Folk told of a maltreated dog that pointed its nose to heaven and bayed a curse against h

field and the stars in the sky that he would tea

went with her to live elsewhere; but she left him and w

arily, with their fists clenched and their eyes alert. He was shunned by every one. The strength of his arms also was a thing to be afrai

that's working in him-and he never did it either. Look how kind he is to me! never the bad word or the hard look! Ye black

aid he had committed suicide, other some pursed their lips tightly and said nothing. All were relieved that he was g