me, sir," said Joe, as he entered t
too, and it did strike him forcibly that they were very shabby. However, there was Oscar's stained suit; whi
at. "Oscar tells me that you are not sati
lied Joe bluntly. "If you will look for yourse
are too free spoken. I understand you have been complai
the way that happe
hend he
came up and insulted me, calling me a ragamuffin. I to
on looked
ion in life. It is not well for a boy in your circumstances to be 'clothed in purple and fine l
that Major Norton was going to open his heart
lusion was so
from a chair near-by a stained suit, whi
hole and almost new. Oscar only wore it a month. It cos
and Joe recogni
Oscar got stained?"
tained, but that doesn't inj
, which had changed the color in large, patches in different parts. The
e overwhelmed with the
why don't Oscar w
egarded Joe wi
ooses to dress," he said. "I apprehen
am your hired boy," s
you can ask me to we
you are unsuitab
e suit myself, I should have felt bound to wear it, but it was Oscar's carelessness that destroyed its appe
inches too short, and it was so far from meeting in front, on account of his being mu
can be let out easily. I will send it to Miss Pe
e, "but I hope you won't go to that expense, for I sh
Major Norton, with dignified disp
een,
u, a boy of fifteen, shoul
Norton, but I am not wil
ud. Your pride n
to tell you how I feel. You are my employer, and
o work, Joseph. I don
me board and cloth
I ha
. I don't think I am very proud, but I have been mortified! more than once when I saw people looking at m
ou look at the thing too one-sided. You
d half as much for my clothes as you
e is a suit of clothes that cost me thirty-fou
dress me in Oscar's castoff clothes, too small, and stained at that. I would rat
e. "I did not expect to find you so unreasonable. If you do no
well
d his heart full of indignation at the
t," he said to himself. "It is like h
e been cleared up. Oscar had been lying in wait for his appe
new clothes?" he
one," ans
her give you a
uit which you staine
aid Oscar patronizingly. "I
you wear
fit for me to wear
r me,"
you've declined?" excla
actly what
hy
ht to kn
than the one
. Besides, it would att
neered Oscar. "Perhaps you think Annie Ray
to her," said Joe. "She was willing
admire he
ith my clothes; sh
ired
boy; but I don't
usiness, that's what's
han my business," said Joe. "I me
ugged his
ke to be a wealthy me
ss," h
ainly s
sneering laugh, a
eft free to do as he liked, he st