The next day the good man found the owner of the watch, and when she heard Kid's story she forgave him.
Kid was placed in a school, where he learned to be a good boy, as well as to be studious, and he soon forgot the old life. He grew to be a man of whom any mother could have been proud. But the only mother Kid ever knew was the mother of the little boy in the picture, which he cherishes as a thing sacred in his life.
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THE SHOEMAKER RAT
One day a rat gnawed his way into a pantry, and after he had eaten all he wanted he grew bold and went into the kitchen.
There the cook saw him and chased him with a broom, but, not being able to hit him as he ran out of the door, she picked up a pair of shoes that were standing near and threw them after him.
The rat picked them up and put them on. On his way home he met a cat. "What have you on your feet?" he asked the rat.
"Can you not see, my dear Tom?" said the rat. "They are shoes. I am a shoemaker, and, of course, must wear my own product."
"Make me a pair," said the cat, "and I will spare your life."