Brave Tom - The Battle That Won by Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis
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guess which way ye wint, but I seemed to hit it, and I was able to do ye a
little hilp." "That you did, indeed," replied the grateful boy. "I would have gone to jail but for you." "Ye same to be a wide-awake boy, and ye kape yer sinses about ye at all times. Ye are looking for a place to stay?" "Yes." "There isn't much of the night left, but I'll find ye what ye want." A couple of blocks farther, Patsey conducted him into just the house the boy would have picked out for himself, had he been given a week in which to hunt. Patsey accompanied Tom to his room, where he gave him some earnest advice. "This is a moighty avil village, is New York, and ye had better get out of the same while ye have the money to do it. It isn't a good thing for a lad to carry a pistol, but I wish ye to kaap the one I lint ye as long as ye are in danger, which is loikely to be all yer life." "My money is nearly all gone," replied Tom, "and unless I get at something pretty soon, I shall have to beg. I would go out of the city to-morrow if I only had Jim." "Perhaps it is as well that ye wait where ye are for a few days for him, spinding yer laisure in looking for a job. I'm a coochman in the employ of |
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