CHAP. X.[ToC]
ANOTHER BLOCK OF MARBLE.
This story about the building of the deacon's barn brings to my mind another, pretty closely related to it. Will you hear that, too?
One morning, as Uncle Mike was walking out, he saw a boy sitting down on the door steps of one of his neighbors. Upon a closer inspection of the lad it appeared that he was a poor boy, without any parents, who was wandering about, doing odd jobs, here and there, and getting what people had a mind to pay him for his services.
MIKE MARBLE AND THE BEGGAR.[ToList]