Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

we moved along, keeping in the shadow of the ho

ion, speaking for the firs

time he reached down and drew off his stockings, a

an hour, until the lights of Lancaster had faded in the distance, a

ay you were in

," I answere

to amuse h

tburst of laughter. "I never saw a pr

explain, but he

forgery with me-ten years at the least

aid I, not knowing

ion, I inquired how he came to be pro

motive in asking the question, and then, apparently satisfied with the scrutiny,

aimed, in open

't you see? Nothing but the crusts.

jim

is. That came

f steel, and in an instant fitted them tog

a crowbar, chisel, hammer and wrench, all in one.

ow your way out in

t way, and I always ke

sked, in some alarm, as

ou are going, and I don't propose to let you know where I am going. Besides, it is

dismay. "Do you think the

so? I know

eeth chattered, at this anno

look for you half as much as they will for me. If you travel right s

ne anything," I s

ugh. "You have broken jail, and that m

e of news that I could only lean up aga

got you yet. If you go straight through this cornfield you

plunged into the woods on the right

the cornfield; and when I found the road, I sped along it at a r

calculated that it must be about midnight, and I determined that

I kept it up until I saw the s

was completely tired out, and very glad to crawl into th

eep, and I did not awake u

wo ailments wore away as I started again on my journey, but the latter in

e, close to the road, with a yellow dog chained o

ma'am,"

aid she. "

se, m

no tramps hookin' everything

tramp. I want something to eat"-the woman started

he heart to turn anybody away hungry. Tramps bother a person so that I get kinder

and coffee, and I lost no time in falling to. I paid a quarter for it when I had finished, and got away as qu

ars, it is sufficient to say that I kept this up for a week, until I found myself in

t, had a bath and my hair cut, a complete chan

took to the road, determined to keep going as long as my money and strength held o

nner and supper for trifling sums; and, when night came on,

orest on my left, I soon came to a secluded spot, near a r

to the Land of Nod, when I was aroused by a

the rattling, and as it evidently come from

e bottom, about fifteen feet below, a bright li

sapling, I leaned far over the edge to observe the why and wherefor. As I did so,

the sapling into the ra