They were divided in opinion.
"Don't he look wicked, the young scamp ?" said a thin-visaged female with a long neck.
"Yes," said her companion.

"He's one of them street rowdies that go around doin' mischief.

They come around and pull my bell, and run away, the villians!" "What's the matter, my boy ?" asked a tall man with sandy hair, addressing himself to Joe in a friendly tone.
"This man says I broke his window." "How was it?
Did you break it ?" "No, sir.

I was standing looking in, when a stone came from somewhere and broke it." "Look here, sir," said the sandy-haired man, addressing himself to the German, "what reason have you for charging this boy with breaking your window ?" "He stood shoost in front of it," said the German.
"If he had broken it, he would have run away.

Didn't that occur to you ?" "Some one broke mine window," said the German.
"Of course; but a boy who threw a stone must do so from a distance, and he wouldn't be likely to run up at once to the broken window." "Of course not.