He is trying to behave well, and I am sure we could help him.

Can't we ?" All the boys looked sober, and Joe, otherwise Brickbat, said, bluntly, "I won't.

He's a bad lot, and we don't want any such here.

Let him go with chaps of his own sort." "That is just what I want to keep him from! He's a good-hearted boy enough, only no one looks after him; so he gets into scrapes, as we should, if we were in his place, I dare say.

He wants to come here, and would be so proud if he was let in, I know he'd behave.