So the secret of Titee's jaunts down the railroad was out. In one of his trips around the swamp-land, he had discovered the old man exhausted from cold and hunger in the fields. Together they had found this cave, and Titee had gathered the straw and paper that made the bed. Then a tramp cow, old and turned adrift, too, had crept in and shared the damp dwelling. And thither Titee had trudged twice a day, carrying his luncheon in the morning and his dinner in the afternoon.
"There's a crown in heaven for that child," said the officer of charity to whom the case was referred.
But as for Titee, when the leg was well, he went his way as before.
[Transcriber's Note: I have closed contractions, e.g. "was n't" has
become "wasn't".
I have also made the following changes to the text:
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43 13 accordeon accordion
56 22 work But work. But
78 14 chere chere
122 12 "Bravo! "Bravo!"
170 17 tumultously tumultuously
216 5 be,' be,">[