I know all about it; and I want to tell you now that you had better turn over a new leaf and be quick about it, too.

Mother says that if folks don't grow better every day, they grow worse, and I can see that it is true in your case and father's.

You are both going down hill, and the first thing you know you'll do something that will get you in the calaboose.

Three months ago neither one of you would have been guilty of stealing." "Whoop!" yelled Dan, jumping up and knocking his heels together.
"I don't want to go back on either one of you," continued David, "and neither do I want to tell mother how bad you are; but I'll do it sooner than let you swindle Don Gordon or anybody else.

Why don't you go to work ?" "Kase I've got jest as much right to set around an' do nothin' as other folks has," answered Dan, who had had time to recover himself in some measure.