"Going to court, Nat?" he inquired.
"Going where?" replied Nat, not understanding him.
"To court! They have taken up Harry Gould and Tom Ryder, and the court is coming off at the hall."
"What have they taken Harry and Tom for?" asked Nat, becoming deeply interested in the event.
"I don't know exactly; but it is something about disturbing the exhibition."
The facts in the case were these. There was an exhibition in the hall owned by the manufacturing company, and these two boys climbed up on the piazza and looked into the window, thereby disturbing the exercises. An action was brought against them, and they were to be tried before a justice of the town.
"It is too bad," replied Nat, "to take up such little boys for that—they didn't know any better. What will be done with them, do you expect?"
"Perhaps they will send them to jail. Father says it is a serious matter to disturb a meeting of any kind."
"Yes," replied Nat, "it is a mean act in anybody, but I don't believe that Harry and Tom understood it. It will be too bad to send them to prison for that. Perhaps they would never do such a thing again."
"Come," added Sylvester, "let us go to the trial and see. They have begun before this time."