Sucker Days. 87 



that was taken out of the oven too soon 

 and would not do at all for the sewing 

 society on Thursday evening. How much 

 better to give a sucker to Uncle Bennett 

 than to receive almost anything from 

 Heaven one's self. He should have the 

 precious fish and the family at home must 

 depend upon the market down in the vil- 

 lage as they always preferred to do. 

 The boy laboriously wrote on a piece of 

 paper torn from the soiled fly-leaf of his 

 speller, "lets Givum 4we- too unkelbent," 

 and stealthily passed the note over to 

 Tom Allen's desk. A quick nod of Tom's 

 head from behind his " joggerphy " showed 

 that an enterprising boy who could de- 

 fraud his companion because that was one 

 of the laws of trade, was nevertheless 

 unable to resist the impulse to give his 

 plunder to Uncle Bennett. That ap- 

 peared to Tom a matter of right and 

 wrong in which he was governed no doubt 

 by the laws of compensation, because 

 Uncle Bennett had such a superlative de- 

 gree of nothing at all. 



It was almost four o'clock. Who ever 



