I'm a thousand times obliged to you for taking the trouble." "Oh! not at all, Hugh.

Why, there's nothing I wouldn't do to help pay back all your kindness to me in the past.

Some people think a lame boy has no feelings, but you've never considered it so; you've always acted as if you felt mighty sorry for a boy so badly afflicted.

And I can never forget how you shamed Pete Garinger into begging my pardon for something mean he threw at me.

All I hope is that you catch those curs in the act, and give them what they deserve, if they really try to hurt your poor little pets." "Make your mind easy on that score, Limpy," asserted Thad, with his accustomed show of confidence, "we'll fix a trap to get the sneaks, should they call in the dead of night.