"Thank you," said the boy gratefully. "I'll do some chores for you to pay for my meal and the apples I took, if you'll let me," he went on. "I offered to work for a man last night, to pay for my supper, but he wouldn't let me, and he said if I didn't get off his place he'd set his ugly old ram after me."
"Maybe that's the same ram that butted Captain Ben!" exclaimed Rose.
"Did that old ram of Hank Yardon's get loose?" asked Mr. Brown, as he walked back to the house with the children.
"Yes," answered Russ, and he told what had happened.
"Well, well!" said the farmer. "It's a good thing the canal mule driver happened along. Hector is a bad one!"
"Do you live here?" asked the "apple boy," as Rose called him. He put his question to Russ, beside whom he was walking to the house.
"No," was the answer. "We're on our way to Captain Ben's at Grand View and——"
"Where'd you say?" interrupted the boy quickly.
"Captain Ben's," said Rose.
"No, I mean the name of the place."