The reply sounded so hopeless, even to his own ears, that he hastened to qualify it by adding: "You see, it's like this, sir.

Kindnesses that people are paid to lay off in job lots and that belong equally to several hundred others, ain't going to be soaking into any one fellow so much." "Go on," said McLean, nodding comprehendingly.
"There's nothing worth the taking of your time to tell," replied Freckles.

"The Home was in Chicago, and I was there all me life until three months ago.

When I was too old for the training they gave to the little children, they sent me to the closest ward school as long as the law would let them; but I was never like any of the other children, and they all knew it.

I'd to go and come like a prisoner, and be working around the Home early and late for me board and clothes.