. Nast's Illustrated Almanac 1873 . iveright, and hang on as long as he could, and have his dying speech all ready when histime came. But, somehow, nothing ever went right with this good little boy ; nothing ever turnedout with him the way it turned out with the good little boys in the books. They al-ways had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there wasa screw loose somewhere, and it all happened just the other way. When he found JimBlake stealing apples, and went under the tree to read to him about the bad little boywho fell out of a neighbors apple-tree and br
. Nast's Illustrated Almanac 1873 . iveright, and hang on as long as he could, and have his dying speech all ready when histime came. But, somehow, nothing ever went right with this good little boy ; nothing ever turnedout with him the way it turned out with the good little boys in the books. They al-ways had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there wasa screw loose somewhere, and it all happened just the other way. When he found JimBlake stealing apples, and went under the tree to read to him about the bad little boywho fell out of a neighbors apple-tree and broke his ann, Jim fell out of the tree too,but he fell on him, and broke his arm, and Jim wasnt hurt at all. Jacob couldnt un-derstand that. There wasnt any thing in the books like it. And once, when some bad boys pushed a blind man over in the mud, and Jacob ranto help him up and receive his blessing, the blind man did not give him any blessing atall, but whacked him over the head with his stick, and said he would like to catch him. NASrS ALMANAC FOR 1873. 25 shoving him again, and then pretending to help him up. This was not in accordancewith any of the books. Jacob looked them all over to see. One thing that Jacob wanted to do was to find a lame dog that hadnt any place tostay, and was hungry and persecuted, and bring him home, and pet him, and have thatdogs imperishable gratitude. And at last he found one, and was happy; and hebrought him home and fed him, but when he was going to pet him the dog flew at himand tore all the clothes off him except those that were in front, and made a spectacle
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