"It's as much yours as mine, since we went inter partnership."

"It doesn't make any difference who owns it. I think we'd better let him in, if he's a decent kind of a boy, an' has been havin' hard luck."

"Then s'pose I go after him? He's down by the grocery store, an' when I left was lookin' at a smoked herrin' 's if he'd draw the back-bone right out of it."

"Shall I go with you?" Teddy asked.

IKEY BEFORE THE GROCER'S WINDOW.

"No; I can get him up here alone if you'll stand by the gate so's to catch him when I h'ist him over," said Carrots, "'cause he's lame an' can't do much shinnin' himself."