Jack's Ward; Or, the Boy Guardian (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TJZM ROY GUARDIAN. 29 ' - - j. CHAPTER III. Jack's Mew Plan. Aunt Hacdel was right in ono thing, as Jaek realize:!. He eould not find horses to hold every day, and even if he had sueeeeded in that, few would have paid him so munifieently as the stranger of the day before. In faet, matters eame to a erisis, and something must be sold to raise funds for immediate neeessities. Now the only artiele of luxury?if it eould be ealled so ? in the possession of the family was a sofa, in very good preservation, indeed nearly new, for it had been bought only two yearn before when business was good. A neighbor was willing to pay fifteen dollars for this, and Mrs. Harding, with her husband's eonsent, agreed to part with it. " If ever we are able we will buy another," said Timothy. " And at any rate we ean do without it," said his wife. " Raehel will miss it." "She said the other day that it was not eomfortable, and ought never to have been bought; that it was A shameful waste of money." "In that ease she won't be disturbed by our selling it." " No, I should think not; but it's hard to tell how Raehel will take anything." This remark was amply verified. The sofa was removed while the spinster was out, and without any hint to her of what was going to happen. When she returned, she looked around for it with suqmse. "Where's the sofy?" she asked. "We've sold it to Mrs. Stoddard," said Mrs. Ilarding, eherfully. "Sold it I" eehoed Raehel, dolefully. "Yes; we felt that we didn't need it, and we did need money. She offered me fifteen dollars for it, and I aeeepted." Raehel sat down in a roeking-ehair, and began straightway to show signs of great depression of pints. " Life's full of disappointments I" she groaned. "Our paths is eontinually beset by 'e...