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Parkhurst Boys

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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But there is no resisting the inevitable.

He did in due time find himself in another row; and then he suddenly vanished from our midst, for he had been expelled.
Now, with regard to Sam and boys like him, it is of course only natural to hold them up as examples to others.

No boy can be a scamp and not suffer for it some way or other; and as to saying it's one's misfortune rather than one's fault that it is so, that is as ridiculous as to say, when you choose to walk north, that it is your misfortune you are not walking south.
But, in excuse for Sam, we must say that he was by no means the worst boy in our school, though he did get into the most rows, and was finally expelled in disgrace.

If he had been deceitful or selfish, he would probably have escaped oftener than he did; but he never denied his faults or told tales of others.

We who knew him generally found him good-natured and jovial; he looked upon himself as a far more desperate character than we ourselves did, and once I remember he solemnly charged me to take warning by his evil fate.
Still, you see, Sam sinned once too often.


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