"That is where he is level-headed," said Fred. "My father said I
was to call for a doctor the minute I felt at all sick."

They were now approaching Putnam Hall, but there was still another
turn to make. As they swept around this, they came upon a tramp,
half asleep under a tree. The tramp roused up at the sounds of
carriage wheels and looked first at the driver of the carryall and
then at the four boys.

"Phew!" he ejaculated, and lost no time in diving out of sight
into some brush back of the row of maples.

"Hullo, who was that?" cried Sam.

"A tramp, I reckon," answered the utility man. "We are bothered a
good deal with them."

"Begging at the Hall for the left-overs?"

"Exactly. The captain is too kind-hearted. He ought to drive 'em
all away," answered Peleg Snuggers; and then the carryall passed
on.

When it was gone, and the wagon with the trunks had followed, the
tramp came out of the brush and gazed after both turnouts. "Say,
Buddy Girk, but dat was a narrow escape," he muttered to himself.
"Wot brought dem young gents to dis neighborhood? It can't be
possible da have tracked me -- an' so quick." He hesitated. "I
t'ink I had better give dis neighborhood de go-by," and he dove
into the brush again. He was the rascal who had stolen Dick's