The bill was not very small, but his pocket-book was evidently well supplied, and he paid it with out any difficulty.
After they had left the store, the oldest boy gave Oscar and Alfred, each, one of the pocket-knives, to pay them for their trouble, as he expressed it.

They were much pleased with their present, and felt very well satisfied with their afternoon's adventure.

They were a little surprised, however, that their new friends should think it necessary to invest so largely in weapons of defence; and on their hinting this surprise, the boy who purchased the articles said, with a careless, business-like air: "O, we 've got to travel a good many hundred miles, and there 's no knowing what rough fellows we may fall in with.

But give me a good revolver and dirk, and I bet I will take care of myself, anywhere." The seriousness with which this brave language was uttered by a boy scarcely yet in his teens, would have made even Alfred and Oscar smile, but for the consciousness of the new knives in their pockets.
It was now quite dark, and on coming to a street which led more directly towards his home, Oscar left the other boys, with the promise of seeing them again Monday morning..