CHAPTER V.
A YOUNG F.F.

B.
As the two boys sat in front of the fire, popping and eating the corn, and chatting of one thing and another, their acquaintance improved rapidly.

Harry learned that Oscar's father was a Boston merchant, in the Calcutta trade, with a counting-room on Long Wharf.
Oscar was a year older than himself, and the oldest child.

He had a sister of thirteen, named Florence, and a younger brother, Charlie, now ten.

They lived on Beacon Street, opposite the Common.