CHAPTER I.IN THE RAILWAY CARRIAGE—NEW FRIENDS.
“Well, little friend, and where do you hail from?”
The speaker was a merry-faced, brown-eyed boy of eleven, with curly brown hair—just the school-boy all over.
He had leaped into a railway carriage with cricket-bat, fishing-rod, and a knowing-looking little hamper, which he deposited on the seat beside him; then away went the snorting steam horse, train, people, and all,...
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