The Wages of Sin 



punished so? Who would be mean enough to steal a 

 little boy's trophy? How did they get loose, if that 

 explained their disappearance ? All day long I stayed 

 on that creek and fished, and fished and fished, but 

 got no such beauties as had rewarded me the day be- 

 fore. I carried no fish back to grandmother's that 

 night, but I did carry an aching heart, and the worst 

 of it was I could tell no one about it. 



Honest Injun, Mr. Dilg, was it not a tragedy? 



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