[Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookPenrod and Sam CHAPTER IX 2/23
"I HAD to give that bread to a--to a poor ole man.
He was starving and so were his children and his wife.
They were all just STARVING--and they couldn't wait while I took time to come and ask you, Mamma.
I got to GO outdoors this afternoon.
I GOT to! Sam's--" She relented. In the carriage-house, half an hour later, Penrod gave an account of the episode. "Where'd we been, I'd just like to know," he concluded, "if I hadn't got out here this afternoon ?" "Well, I guess I could managed him all right," Sam said.
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