That's why they couldn't tell where I'd gone.

When I left the man, I worked for a couple of weeks with a farmer, but I thrashed his boy, and then the old man thrashed me, and I ran off again and walked here." "All the way ?" "Yes, the man didn't pay me, and I wouldn't ask for it.

Took it out in beating the boy," and Dan laughed, yet looked ashamed, as he glanced at his ragged clothes and dirty hands.
"How did you live?
It was a long, long tramp for a boy like you." "Oh, I got on well enough, till I hurt my foot.

Folks gave me things to eat, and I slept in barns and tramped by day.

I got lost trying to make a short cut, or I'd have been here sooner." "But if you did not mean to come in and stay with us, what were you going to do ?" "I thought I'd like to see Teddy again, and you; and then I was going back to my old work in the city, only I was so tired I went to sleep on the hay.