. A queer family . lly impolite. I dont care, answered Mamie ; I dontintend to sit still and hear Dave abused, espe-cially by such a boy as Andy. I dont know what she means, said Andy. I did nt intend to say anything to make herfeel bad ; and — and — Bob and I would nt earnmoney that way if we could earn it any otherway. But when a fellow s hungry -^ I d eat bread without butter first, said 64 A QUEER FAMILY. Mamie. I ve been so , hungry that I wasdad to. And we ve been so hungry that we chewedbits of a pine board to see if we could nt geta little juice out of it, and we could havebought a loa
. A queer family . lly impolite. I dont care, answered Mamie ; I dontintend to sit still and hear Dave abused, espe-cially by such a boy as Andy. I dont know what she means, said Andy. I did nt intend to say anything to make herfeel bad ; and — and — Bob and I would nt earnmoney that way if we could earn it any otherway. But when a fellow s hungry -^ I d eat bread without butter first, said 64 A QUEER FAMILY. Mamie. I ve been so , hungry that I wasdad to. And we ve been so hungry that we chewedbits of a pine board to see if we could nt geta little juice out of it, and we could havebought a loaf of bread for three cents; but wecould nt get the three cents. Mamie stared at him with open eyes, toomuch astonished to say another word. Andydid not look lilvc a boy who would tell a false-hood, yet she found his story hard to thought she had been very hungry, but shehad known nothing like that. Just then voices were heard on the and Dave were returning from their visitto the ^* What would I do if I didnt have this to keep me warm. Page 83. A QUEER FAMILY. 65 CHAPTER FIFTH. Dave an me, we ve been a-havin a leetleconfab, announced Bob, as the two boys en-tered the room, an we re goin ter be all onefamly. Mighty queer famly ; dont yer say so,gals ? Yes, we do, answered Mamie, very decidedly. * Uh, huh! Then we both thinks the samething, answered Bob. It will be cheaper so, began Dave. Yer kin bet yer life it will, answered Bob. I made old Moneybags let us have both othese here rooms fer five dollars ; thats thebeginnin o the good times a-comin. It madeold Moneybags squirm like a caterpillar on ahot stove ter be bleeged ter say good-by terthat dollar what he d never seed. If we havea few days more like this. Brother Andy^ we U 5 6Q A QUEER FAMILY. have half the rich ristercrats in the citya-squirmiii fit to bust theirselves. Fortiu is jista-chasin of us now, an if we dont look outshe s a-goin ter git us afore we knows it. Catching up his vi
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