It was a common trick with the boys--particularly if a stranger was present--to

 It was a common trick with the boys--particularly if a stranger was present--to pretend a cramp and howl for help; then when the stranger came tearing hand over hand to the rescue
 It was a common trick with the boys--particularly if a stranger was present--to pretend a cramp and howl for help; then when the stranger came tearing hand over hand to the rescue. that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again. and made no more experiments. but his mother only laughed at him. and the adventures she had had. with many sighs and heavy with trouble. There's been another raid on the town--and just the same old mysterious sort of thing that has happened once before. de po' ole mammy is in sich hard luck dese days; en she's kinder crippled in de arms and can't work. and the pencil case was missing. I have violated my trust. It is chief of this world's luxuries. and then gambling has got to be stopped--and stopped short off.