Part 3 (2/2)
It was then the crowd discovered that Bill Slade had disappeared
”I'll have to take you along,” said the officer
Tos, and he was through
”Couldn't yer leave him come over jist till I ed
”They'll give him his dinner at the station, ma'am,” the police as Tom was led up the street, the full juvenile force of Barrel Alley thronging after him
”Wouldn' yer leave me pull my strap up?” he asked the police him by the neck instead, and the last that Mrs O'Connor saw To his one rebellious strand of suspender up into place
”Poor lad, I don't knohat'll beco on her doorstep to speak with a neighbor
”And theht comin' on,” said her companion
”I wisht that alarhin' at the whole thing--like”
”'Tain't only his bein' arrested,” said Mrs O'Connor, ”but ther' ain't no hope for him at all, as I kin see Ther's no one can in_floo_ence hie ruled out all reference to the disfigure ”incompetent and irrelevant,” and when the ”assault and battery” could not be made to seem ”an act done in self-defense and by reason of the i” to spend the balance of the day and to ponder on the discovery that a ”guy” has no right to ”slam”
a marshal just because he sets a dirty beer can on his mother's picture
His first enterprise after his liberation was a flank move on Schmitt's Grocery where he stole a couple of apples and a banana, which latter he ate going along the street These were his only luncheon The banana skin he threw on the pave-ment
In a few , saw a s the peel he had dropped The boy was a jaunty little felloearing a natty spring suit It was, in fact, ”Pee-wee” Harris, Tenderfoot, as just starting out to cover Provision 5 of the Second Class Scout require to be a Second Class Scout before ca-time, or know the reason why
”You drop that?” he asked pleasantly
”Ye-re, you kin have it,” said Tom cynically
”Thanks,” said Pee-wee, and the banana peel went sailing over the fence into Teet a free ride on that thing,” said Pee-wee
”Ye-re?” said To free near John Temple's property----”
”Dere's where yer said it, kiddo,” said Toaily on, walking a little, then running a little, then walk-ing again, until To just at that minute to finish one of his apples (or rather one of Schht for the back of Pee-wee's head