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I missed it, after paying my account there. I | get a place elsewhere meantime. om el went out, leaving the tailor and this lad there, and returned} The gentleman took the trouble to go over to Snip’s whom he : to within five minutes. The boy was gone, and I have never seen | knew well, to ask about the boy’s character; for he was prepos- - ee RE my wallet since. The lad was then absent from his place two|sessed in his favor, and would hire him if he found all right Dinas wy days, I hear 4 there. 5 Pp ‘‘No matter what you heard,” remarked the judge, civilly. “Barefoot Billy?” exclaimed the tailor, with a good deal of te ‘ Tell only what you know, if you please, Mr. Ballard.” ill-nature; ‘well, he left me because I sent him away. He's a ay it I remember nothing more than what I have stated. But I| pauper, a scamp, and a thief as well, I haye no doubt.” : me)" ae came here very reluctantly. I do not make any charge against} ‘You don’t say so, Mr. Snip! Well, he doesn’t look like one, eo ie this lad, and I’m sure I don’t know that he knows any more |at any rate.” : ‘'s 3 . about it than you or I do. I merely relate what occurred when} ‘‘You can’t tell nothin’ from looks, sir. Now I took that boy : 33 I suddenly missed my wallet.” yt out o’ the gutter. His parents are dead; he’s been brought up f = : saTOw much money was there in it?” among the roughs at North End, and turns out a poor creetur, | i Tk i ‘Nearly a hundred dollars. . like the rest of ’em.”’ | ’ Hs You might haye dropped it outside the store, after you left,| ‘‘A thief, eh? Well, I don’t think I'll be imposed on by him. ud 5 : eS te i ONE Thank you, Snip. Good-day.” | 3 Zs Wee ae DOR = Barefoot Billy went around all day, but found ho opening ex- | | ‘ey x ioht bi else might have stolen it?” cept the first one. And next morning he called upon the party ei | ap migat be, sir” ; | whom he had seen the day previous. here certainly is no evidence here against this boy, that I} ‘Good-mornin’, sir.” ap = Nobody shows that he displayed the money, or spent “Ah! Well—I don’t want you, young man. I’ve seen Mr, = or Fee it. Itis not found upon him, and he solemnly |Snip. I don’t want you.” — 5 is apps us ae t ae has never been up before us before—| ‘‘What did my old master tell about me, if you please, sir?” , “uy c ae arge him, SOF Bh eR ‘“‘Well, it’s of noconsequence. He said nothing good of you. rt aay at liberty, young man,” said his honor, briefly. That’s all. I don’t want you.” ee eae seoangeud areas and Barefoot Billy made their exit out of| ‘I hope Mr. Snip will live to see that he has doubly wronged ; ouse, and went home rejoicing. a poor orLubeP boy, sir,” said Barefoot Billy, with singular gray- | RI ity. ‘‘Pirst, in throwing him out of employ when he most need- CHAPTER VII. ed it, and now in lying about him, as I ene he has done to BAREFOOT BILLY TRIES ONCE MORE. y eerD} alr oneh sir.” ‘The hardened young reprobate!” exclai ps nenes ree had been honorably acquitted by the court of / in astonishment at this or eacant aitrotitety.* san ywonea eee pa cue 8 eger against him, yet the stigma rested upon him/|look at that boy now, that he was a deeply injured youn st s oe - he W es a good deal depressed and mortified by it. indeed. Oh, the perversity of human nature! I aevereay x bos olly enre im good counsel, in her homely way, and tried to | that looked so little like a scamp or a thief ‘as he do e euconkees 1m to make another effort to get employment—first, Well, I’m luckily ridded of him. He won't rob RE a <P neeeag A and yeaa because she really was not| And still the lad pushed about, but without atepant succes Richt be Sh pa in idleness, however well disposed she | He could not produce any recommendations from his last p] ; rere SAS a eee gh BER ant ce be earning something. | and nobody would hire him. So he returned, day after Eee. “Up an’ at it agin, Billy,” said Moll Molly’s house, without being able to find the chance he sought iNmbaerwe up the shiv. 86 y, said Molly, good-naturedly. After a while he boughi a gross of matches, with th e g ae 6ship. Stick to it—you’ git holt o’ somethin, Molly furnished, and peddled these. Then he tri ©. money y |. x . Moll helps them as helps themselves.” papers, but “got stuck” with too man left j aie ripeieton plied ne . i gates But it’s up-hill work, now, you see,” re-| to find this profitable. Then he helped tend. Molly's ahont ter sey’ She Pes Aen ’ s Cally ) ‘AC ’ : J O course it 1s; what o’ that? Face it, Billy, like a man. fag Aira tte tetas on Puoletl, MAY sii irst one poor call- Ae sha z : bets for a home while I have one, if you can’t find a! of three dollars a week Tee Ree Te ae | place. ut try agin, an’ never give it up so.” . “That will, Molly—an d right off.” p jane ae he came home highly elated, for he had found a Next day (and t is was two weeks after his dismissal from the| « is it, Billy?” : ce Avirg sae aeper 4 started off in the morning to hunt upa roma whatever aiane sa ye Biehly. leased: wit She v ere, ésT? : y oar 7 , Hoe \ carried a braye heart under his torn coat. note; I’m goin’ to sea, Molly,” said the boy, triumphant] «eT? 2 ! art ithstand- | agreed to s} - ! P Pass I've sealers peyetem abc ine.txced, bis “nnpromising prospects with | Rah aoe wre 19 i003 Sande Mate Gratien nae i eat . ; J 1? 2 sLOIL) - And he sai During the morning he found a shop whe cts Cava pte ane he'd give me the chance, an’ two m again; and in he went. Pp rea boy was wanted, | pepe a fit-out, an’ we would sail next week. An’ I’m aa! sp you want to hire a boy, sir?” he asked, with some trepida- | The boy went on board the ship next day, and every day till “Fifteen, sir.” shirts for him, ‘hin : nS “Been in a store yet?” anal A sth finally he nt the port Beara Sorout Bina | This was a poser, for Barefoot Billy aptic; : 41S Hrst voyage as a sailor, with a fair prospect Mai cuted fattealiy fellow. y anticipated the queries | Molly’s earnest blessing. prospect, and poor ‘*Yes, sir,” he said. ) f ‘**Where?” asked the man. : | “At Mr. Snip’s.” CHAPTER VIII. ieee ho oi a nah ea THE BURNING SHIP AT SEA, “What did ronda there? :, The name of the vessel upon which Barefoot Bill had shi ‘Run errands, sir.” , was the Meteor, bound to London, and thence for India aa ae 7 “Were you there long?” voyage, nue under a good sailing-master, Captain William Evarts, | Ur Mighiont0\4 yout, air? aman of excellent character and disposition. He took a fancy | bi Some te, to the boy from the outset, and eneor ; set, raged him i ‘ “Ves ‘sir—sone,” ant ways and kind treatment. Barefoot Billy had seit eee ‘hehe A “What did you leave him for?” olla saa pe ge ocks and among the sailors, and he took SiS emer a H—he—a—didn’t want me no longer,” replied Barefoot. ite on siinbokeds take Adee tan pape Way oS a : 1 Billy, wi ee y, with a forlorn expression, “3 month he was not only the pet of the ore od amscege bata to _ Can you read and write, boy?” 4 4 } . . . J ad . e ce - F F ’> . ‘ - “ tr 14% . ™ ; ‘ * ‘ P » ; , 4 i : . - bs 4 , g . - _" eo Y ~ ie . + a ? ‘ s + s i ~ ‘ rt f. 7. LA, dine Si vcap . . : : . p a “ , 4 be re o”% | Ao * , ye Oe es 4, . & > > fia. , iw ene . a Aad tty et oP Wn tes a ’ ae ie os’ 5 ‘ tid Bed . ’ WaT She, . OPES sss Pye "ttre “ss a ws , ; Ke —. “% | aw a KS Le ts a x : , ¢ / , Ps o of "* a : rs : 7) - .? 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