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CHAPTER VI. 
THE TIGER AND LION. 
True to their promise, the hoys set out 
next day to carry down some hooks to Jack 
Short, Sidney selected his favourite “North¬ 
ern Regions,”*—an excellent choice, for- 
more reasons than one: first, as being a very 
interesting hook, and secondly because it 
was so nearly in pieces already that a little 
more rough usage could do it no harm. 
After a good deal of consideration, Richard 
decided upon the “Youth’s Cabinet of Bio¬ 
graphy,”* to which he added “Robert Daw¬ 
son” * and “ The Two Carpenters,”* thinking 
that Jack might possibly learn a lesson from 
one and his parents from the other. When 
they showed their selections to Annie, she 
agreed that they had made a very good 
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