Crowded Out o' Crofield; or, The Boy who made his Way

when Jack drove into the town. Having been in Mertonville b

calling itself a town, and ambit

the village, Miss Glid

e are our friends. The very people we're goin

isitors. After welcomes had been exchanged, Mrs. Edwards, a tall,

d your brother John. I've heard so much about you both, fr

said Mary, a little embarrasse

. Edwards. "I don't wonder Miss Glidden is so fond of

d Miss Glidden benevolently,

e himself, very heartily. "If sh

house now, Judge Edwa

, and Jack started

y a short distance farther, and th

g, "you must surely accept Mrs. Edwards's

idden," said

se you will. You'll hav

Mary promised. Then Jack and the Judge's coachman lo

d, a few minutes later

that you will experience

drove away. "Miss Glidden didn't mean

to come visiting, I noticed. I'll leave you at Murdoch's and take the team

', good Mrs. Murdoch came to the d

ou! So glad you've co

the office to see

The storm and the excitement and the exposure have broken him down. Come rig

ve away. "The Eagle will have a ha

he livery-stable, but he was abruptly aroused from his

s Link's bridge? A man on horseback just came here and told

g. "They're both good swimmers, and as f

vermore sent you with them, I suppose. I was losing five dollars a day by

k Og

u. My name's Prodger. I know your father, and I've known him t

rodger drew a long breat

you did first-rate, and if I needed another driver I'd be

Jack. "I wasn't thin

r Link's bridge just before it went down. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll pay you what they'l

've earned," said

umped down. "Come and see me again if you're to be in t

rdochs'. "Mother let me have the six dollars they gave me for the fish. And this makes nine dollars

ice, and that the editor could go to his work through his own garden, if he chose, instead of around by the street. He was again welcomed by Mrs.

ou're sick, Mr. M

worst time for me to be on the sick-list. Nobody

devil'?" exc

lead-headed type-stickers. The man that does the mailing has more than he can do, too. There won't b

be any Eagl

of the groaning editor. "Molly and I know what to do. She can manage the co

you should see what you can do. I'd like to speak to Mary. I'm sorry to say that you'll ha

ind that,"

Jack, the press is run by a pony steam-engine, and that for

ve helped run an engine for a steam thrashing-

in to see him. From what he said to her, it seemed as if there was really

"I never read a newspaper myself, and I don't know the first thing about put

ary, laughing, "I shall be delig

. Murdoch was not able to work. They did not feel anxious about him, for his wife had told

of woodshed, the press was in the "kitchen," as Mary called it, and the front room of the little old

a look at

know just how to set it going. Come on

chair and a few heaps of exchange newspapers. The table

d was to finish an account of his visit to Crofield, and the flood. We'll put that

editorials," said Mary. "Here ar

ack. "But we must p

story and some poems and a bright letter from Europe, and Jack found an account of an exciting horse-race, a horrible railway

rom her reading. "We can cut them down to fit the Eagle,

y. Mr. Murdoch is sure to be satisfied. I don't

work, and soon became so absorbed in their duti

and tell him it's all right. We'll set the Eagle

m plying the scissors, her eyes burned from readin

e they met

The doctor's been here, and says he won't be able to think of work-not f

re's plenty of 'copy' ready,

s mistakes. He's so careful not to attack anything nor to offend anybody. All sorts of

elect the best there is and put it right in. Those

Mary had gone to her room, Jack returned to

" said Jack; "I'll put on a hickory shirt an

remembered sayin

e miles nearer

busy before breakfast, but

ome," he said to Mrs. Murdoch. "Mol

said, "but he has a severe he

feel able," replied Jack. "The

to appear calm. She was ready as soon as Jack, but she did not have qui

on, and the pony-engine had steam up when the fo

all right. I'm Jack Ogden, a friend of Mr. Murdoch's. The new editor's upstai

koned that we'd have to strike wor

said Jack. "I used t

e of a muscle in his pasty-looking face, "M

oor stood open. Mr. Black's eyes blinked rapidly when he s

a number of printed clippings. She rapidly told him what they were, and how e

'am. Is your name

eed be told that Mr. Murdoch is not here. I do

go right along, ma'am. We're glad the

editor awed him; and he backed out of the office, with both han

s. Bless me! I never

oon managed to make an errand up-stairs, and then to

oreman. "She was made for a

sent up after copy, w

his temper. The men mind him then, too; but he has to be waked up fir

gden, or how much older she felt than when she left Crofield; but he

tall, and that her eyes were very black, and that he did not care to go up-stairs again; for he

dit the Inquirer, he was jist in, lookin' for-

Mary, with much dignity. "Mr. Murdoch is at ho

don't mind him, ma'am. I'll go down right away, ma

w Jack, and he not only saw, but felt, that something v

to them that they were at all interested in the Inquirer, or in its editors, beyond th

rred them on, and Mr. Black was almost bright when he

er had, ma'am," said he. "Please say

said she. "I hope Mr. Mu

themselves in Mr. Murdoch's garden, on their way home. It broke completely down as they were

the Inquirer will get ahead of us. I'm going out, after supper, all over town, to pick up news. If I can only find

" said Mary. "Stir around

f he had really undertaken to do all he proceeded