18 WILD DICK AND 42 Dick was permitted to earn his victuals, by or helping the hay-makers. They soon detected pC him in getting behind the hay-cocks, and drink- a ing the rum from their jugs ; and accordingly w little Dick got a sound thrashing, and was driven out of the field ; for these hay-makers «, were sojar inclined to pronu^Lthe cause of ( temperance, that they would no^ermit any gj persons, but themsdves, to drink up, their rum. U] Poor Dick 1 he cut a wretched figure, as he went whimpering along the road, rubbing liis w red eyes upon his ragged sleeve. He spent ' that day in strolling about farmer Little’s wood- a land and orchard, in the hope of meeting Robert. But he was unsuccessful; and, sit night, he tj went, crying and sppperless, to ben, in the far- p mer’s barn. He slid down frqpAhe hay-mow, | a before daylight, and resolved to quit a place, 0 where he had neither father, nor mother, nor p friend, to whom he could look for protf 1 'on A a and support. The day was juf $ he came out of the barn : his pt of t g the cottage of farmer Little ; h thei t parcel on the door stone, and t of i k I
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