. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . length learned tolike the prospect of getting away from Bonnertoninto the country. After all, it was but for a year, andit promised so much of joy. Sunday-school leftbehind. Church reduced to a minimum. All hislife outdoors, among fields and woods—surely thisspelled happiness; but now that he was really there,the abomination of desolation seemed sitting on allthings and the evening was one of unalloyedmisery. He had nothing to tell of, but a cloud ofblack despa
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . length learned tolike the prospect of getting away from Bonnertoninto the country. After all, it was but for a year, andit promised so much of joy. Sunday-school leftbehind. Church reduced to a minimum. All hislife outdoors, among fields and woods—surely thisspelled happiness; but now that he was really there,the abomination of desolation seemed sitting on allthings and the evening was one of unalloyedmisery. He had nothing to tell of, but a cloud ofblack despair seemed to have settled for good on theworld. His mouth was pinching very hard and hiseyes blinking to keep back the tears when Mrs. Raftencame into the room. She saw at a glance what waswrong. Hes homesick, she said to her be all right to-morrow, and she took Yanby the hand and led him upstairs to bed. Twenty minutes later she came to see if he wascomfortable. She tucked the clothes in aroundhim, then, stooping down for a good-night kiss, shefound his face wet with tears. She put her arms 107 Two Little Savages. about him for a moment, kissed him several times,and said, Never mind, you will feel all rightto-morrow,M then wisely left him alone. Whence came that load of misery and horror, orwhither it went, Yan never knew. He saw it nomore, and the next morning he began to interesthimself in his new world. William Raften had a number of farms all in fineorder and clear of mortgages; and each year he addedto his estates. He was sober, shrewd, even cunning,hated by most of his neighbours because he was tooclever for them and kept on getting richer. Hishard side was for the world and his soft side for hisfamily. Not that he was really soft in any respect,He had had to fight his life-battle alone, beginningwith nothing, and the many hard knocks had hardenedhim, but the few who knew him best could testify tothe warm Irish heart that continued unchangedwithin him, alb
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