HE DID SO LONG TO WANDER THROUGH THE COUNTRY
"But was she really happy?" Philippe wondered.
She had once told him that she had to push the big organ about while they begged their way.
It was a heavy thing, that organ, and Philippe had asked, "Doesn't it tire you, Zelie?"
Zelie had looked quickly at her father and had caught Tom's gleaming eye.
"No," she had replied, "it is fun."
Philippe had envied her. If he might go along, he could push the organ for her. He was strong. And he might help Tom, too.
Philippe did not know what his friend Tom was doing just at this moment. As Philippe lay in his comfortable little bed, he did not know that Tom was stealing his father's vegetables. Philippe did not know that poor Zelie was right under the window with Tom, helping to steal Papa Pomme's vegetables.