CHAPTER X.
A NIGHT OF STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
Winn's preparations for the night were of the simplest description, because he had so little to prepare.

The boy tried to console himself with this thought.

"If I had provisions I should have to cook," he said to himself; "and if there is one thing in this world meaner than another it is cooking.

I never realized before what mother has to go through with every day.

Never complains of it, either.