"The little chap that carried him home told him." "We might call him 'Ugly Joe' then," said a lad with a round, fat face, and laughing eyes.

I wondered very much who this boy was, and, later on, I found out that he was another of Miss Laura's brothers, and his name was Ned.

There seemed to be no end to the Morris boys.
"I don't think Laura would like that," said Jack Morris, suddenly coming up behind him.

He was very hot, and was breathing fast, but his manner was as cool as if he had never left the group about me.

He had beaten Tom, who was sitting on a box, ruefully surveying a hole in his jacket.
"You see," he went on, gaspingly, "if you call him 'Ugly Joe,' her ladyship will say that you are wounding the dear dog's feelings.
'Beautiful Joe,' would be more to her liking." A shout went up from the boys.