“Did he ever offer you anything to drink?”
“No,” answered Julius, laughing; “he wanted it all himself. But I wouldn’t have took it.”
“Why not?”
“I didn’t like it. Besides, I didn’t want to lay round drunk like Jack. I didn’t see that there was any fun in it.”
“You are right there. There is very little fun, as you call it, in getting drunk. It appears to me you were brought up under bad influences.”
“Yes, I was,” said Julius, in a matter-of-fact manner.
“Many would be afraid to take into their houses a boy who had been reared by a thief.”
“Maybe they would,” said Julius.{84}
“They might be afraid that he had been trained to steal.”
“Yes,” said Julius; “but what’s the good of stealin’ when you got a good home?”