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"Down Brakes".
The greatest people have their weak points, and the best-behaved boys now and then yield to temptation and get into trouble, as everybody knows.

Frank was considered a remarkably well-bred and proper lad, and rather prided himself on his good reputation, for he never got into scrapes like the other fellows.

Well, hardly ever, for we must confess that at rare intervals his besetting sin overcame his prudence, and he proved himself an erring, human boy.

Steam-engines had been his idols for years, and they alone could lure him from the path of virtue.