The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 5 Free Adventure Teen Books Audiobooks Online.
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the three musketeers by alexander dumas chapter 5 the king's musketeers and the cardinals guards d'artagnan was acquainted with nobody in paris he went therefore to his appointment with athos without a second determined to be satisfied with those his adversary should choose besides his intention was formed to make the brave musketeer all suitable apologies but without meanness or weakness fearing that might result from this duel which generally results from an affair of this kind when a young and vigorous man fights with an adversary who is wounded and weakened if conquered he doubles the triumph of his antagonist if a conqueror he is accused of foul play and want of courage now we must have badly painted the character of our adventure seeker or our readers must have already perceived that dartanian was not an ordinary man therefore while repeating to himself that his death was inevitable he did not make up his mind to die quietly as one less courageous and less restrained might have done in his place he reflected upon the different characters of men he had to fight with and began to view his situation more clearly he hoped by means of loyal excuses to make a friend of athos whose lordly heir and austere bearing pleased him much he flattered himself he should be able to frighten porthos with the adventure of the baldrick which he might if not killed upon the spot relate to everybody a recital which well-managed would cover porthos with ridicule as to the astute aramis he did not entertain much dread of him and supposing he should be able to get so far he determined to dispatch him in good style or at least by hitting him in the face as caesar recommended his soldiers do to those of pompeii to damage forever the beauty of which he was so proud in addition to this d'artagnan possessed that invincible stock of resolution which the councils of his father had implanted in his heart endure nothing from anyone but the king the cardinal and manjoda trivial he flew then rather than walked toward the convent of the khanda salsa or rather to show as it was called at that period a sort of building without a window surrounded by barren fields an accessory to the pro-click and which was generally employed as a place for the duels of men who had no time to lose when d'artagnan arrived in sight of the bare spot of ground which extended along the foot of the monastery athos had been waiting about five minutes and twelve o'clock was striking he was then as punctual as the samaritan woman and the most rigorous casualist with regard to duels could have nothing to say athos who still suffered grievously from his wound though it had been dressed anew by majora treville's surgeon was seated on a post and waiting for his adversary with hat in hand his feather even touching the ground major said athos i have engaged two of my friends as seconds but these two friends have not yet come at which i am astonished as it is not at all their custom i have no seconds on my part monsieur said bartanian for having only arrived yesterday in paris i yet know no one but bonjour treville to whom i was recommended by my father who has the honor to be in some degree one of his friends athos reflected for an instant you know no one but mon jorda treville he asked yes monger i know only him well but then continued athos speaking half to himself if i kill you i shall have the heir of a boy slayer not too much so replied darthanyan with a bowel that was not deficient in dignity since you do me the honor to draw a sword with me while suffering from a wound which is very inconvenient very...

Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse by David Cory 5 Kids' Audiobook No Copyright.
chapter five of pussing boots junior and the good grey horse this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org puss in boots jr and the good grey horse by david corey bicycle puss if i had a horse in the stable i'd lend him to you said the kind-hearted innkeeper have you an automobile asked puss not yet replied the innkeeper but i have a bicycle which i will lend you it took force but a moment to mount and then off he went to catch his good grey horse who you remember in the last story had been stolen by the fairies but oh dear me although it was early morning it seemed as if everybody was up and out for a walk first an old rooster stood right in the middle of the road and crowed cock-a-doodle-doo your horse has lost the shoe where is it asked puss stopping as quickly as he could while the good natured rooster hopped into the long grass and picked it up thank you said puss hanging the shoe over his handlebar and setting off once more but oh dme again he had gone but a short distance when a curly-tailed pig got right in his way and of course puss had to slow up if you're looking for a runaway horse you'd better take the lane to your right said the pig with a grunt and a twist of his curly tail so puss set off again but od me for the third time just in front of him was a big fat cow who had to walk very carefully not to touch the fence rails and either side of her puss rang his bell but she paid no attention to him whatever she kept right on swinging her tail from side to side to brush off the flies and maybe puss never would have passed her if she hadn't all of a sudden with a loud moo trotted into a meadow spread over with buttercups well after a little way puss almost ran into a big load of hay and if the farmer had kept on going down the road instead of turning into a gate i guess puss would have never caught up with this good grey horse gracious me said puss when the road was clear i must make up for lost time but just then a big black crow who was sitting on a fence post called out where are you going so fast so cat look out or the wind will blow off your hat and he flew off the fence and settled on the handlebar oh don't worry you'll get him all right said the crow when puss told him what a hard time he was having to overtake his good grey horse i saw him go by a few minutes ago he looked pretty tired and then the old black bird flew away to tell mrs crow that he had seen a pussycat in boots riding a bicycle

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Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 6 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook.
section six of jataka tales by h.t francis and e.j thomas this librivox recording is in the public domain the robbers and the treasure once on a time when brahmadata was raining in benares there was a brahmana in a village who knew the charm called vedabha now this charm so they say was precious beyond all price for if at a certain conjunction of the planets the charm was repeated and the gaze bent upwards to the skies straight away from the heavens there reigned the seven things of price gold silver pearl coral cat's eye ruby and diamond in those days the bodhisattva was a pupil of this brahmana and one day his master left the village on some business or other and came with the bodhisattva to the country of seti in a forest by the way dwelt 500 robbers known as the dispatchers who made the way impassable and these caught the bodhisattva and the vidhaba brahman why you ask are they called the dispatchers well the story goes that of every two prisoners they made they used to dispatch one to fetch the ransom and that's why they were called the dispatchers if they captured a father and son they told the father to go for the ransom to free his son if they caught a mother and her daughter they sent the mother for the money if they caught two brothers they let the elder go and so too if they caught a teacher and his pupil it was the pupil they set free in this case therefore they kept the vidabha brahman and sent the bodhisattva for the ransom and the bodhisattva said with a bow to his master in a day or two i shall surely come back have no fear only fail not to do as i shall say today will come to pass the conjunction of the planets which brings about the reign of things of price take heed lest yielding to this mishap you repeat the charm and call down the precious shower for if you do calamity will certainly befall both you and this band of robbers with this warning to his master the bodhisattva went his way in quest of the ransom at sunset the robbers bound the brahmana and laid him by the heels just at this moment the full moon rose over the eastern horizon and the brahmana studying the heavens knew that the great conjunction was taking place why thought he should i suffer this misery by repeating the charm i will call down the precious rain pay the robbers the ransom and go free so he called out to the robbers friends why do you take me a prisoner to get ransom reverend sir said they well if that is all you want said the brahmana make haste and untie me have my head bathe the new clothes put on me and let me be perfumed and decked with flowers then leave me to myself the robbers did as he bade them and the brahmin marking the conjunction of the planets repeated his charm with eyes uplifted to the heavens forthwith the things of price poured down from the skies the robbers picked them all up wrapping their booty into bundles with their cloaks then with their brethren they marched away and the brahmana followed in the rear but as luck would have it the party was captured by a second band of 500 robbers why do you seize us said the first to the second for booty was the answer if booty is what you want seize on that brahman who by simply gazing up at the skies brought down riches as reign it was he who gave us all that we've got so the second band of robbers let the first man go and seized on the brahmin crying give us riches too it would give me great pleasure said the brahman but it will be a year before the requisite conjunction of planets takes place again if you will only be so good as to wait till then i will invoke the precious shower for you raskly brahman cried the angry robbers you made the other band rich off hand but want us to wait a whole year and they cut him in two with a sharp sword and flung his body in the middle of the road then hurrying after the first band of robbers they killed every man of them two in...

Mystery of the Secret Band by Edith Lavell 6 Young Adult Teen Mystery Free Audiobook.
chapter 6 of mystery of the secret band by edith lavelle this libravox recording is in the public domain saturday afternoon do you feel any better now mrs mcgregor inquired mrs hillard as the stricken woman sat upright on the bench better she repeated angrily i'll never feel better till i get my money back again mary louise repressed a smile mcgregor was a scotch name now tell us how it happened urged mrs hillard when did you first miss the money just a few minutes ago when i came out of my bath she became hysterical again locked the doors she cried search everybody call the police mary louise caught mrs hillard's eye shall i she asked mrs hillard nodded and tell the janitor to lock the doors and station himself at the front to let the guests in who come home for the girls we'll be coming into lunch from work today is a half holiday by the time mary louise had returned she found the crowd somewhat dispersed the servants had gone back to their work but several new arrivals had joined miss hillard and mrs mcgregor the two walder girls about whom mary louise had heard so much were there and mrs hillard introduced them they were both very attractive very much the same type as mary louise's own friends in riverside much more real she thought than pauline brooks with her vivid makeup and her boastful talk that is a great deal of money to keep in your room mrs mcgregor evelyn walder said especially after all the robberies we've been having at stoddard house that's just it it was just on account of these terrible goings-on that i took the money and the diamonds from a little safe i have and got them ready to put into the bank somebody was too quick for me but i'm pretty sure i know who it was ida the chambermaid oh no protested mrs hillard ida has been with me two years and i know she's honest send for her commanded mrs mcgregor while they were waiting for the girl to appear mrs mcgregor explained just what had happened i had the money in the diamonds in a bag on my bureau she said i was running the water in my bathroom when i heard a knock at the door i unlocked it and ida came in with clean towels and a fresh bureau cover while she was fixing the bureau cover i hurried back to the bathroom put the towels away and turned off the water my bath salts fell out of the closet when i opened the door to put the towels away so i was delayed two or three minutes gathering them up i heard ida go out and close the door behind her and i got into my bath when i came back into the bedroom my bag was gone but you didn't scream immediately observed mrs hillard you must have waited to dress i had dressed in the bathroom before i knew the bag was stolen wasn't anybody else in your room all morning mrs mcgregor mary louise couldn't help asking only missed daughtered she had gone out to buy me some thread she does my mending for me and she stopped in on her return from the store and took some of my lingerie to her room at this moment the chambermaid a girl of about 22 approached the group either she knew nothing about the robbery or else she was a splendid actress for she appeared entirely unconcerned you wanted me mrs hillard she inquired listen to the innocent baby mocked mrs mcgregor scornfully ida looked puzzled and mrs hillard briefly explained the situation the girl denied the whole thing immediately there wasn't any back on the bureau mrs mcgregor she said i know because i changed the cover maybe it wasn't on the bureau admitted mrs mcgregor but it was somewhere in the room you're going to be searched the girl looked imploringly at mrs hillard but the latter could not refuse to grant mrs mcgregor's demand i can prove i didn't take any bag said ida by miss brooks i went right into her room next and made her bed she can tell you i did she was just going out i'm sure she'll remember is miss brooks here i think she left the hotel about 15 minutes ago stated...

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 6 Free Audiobook Kids Adventure Drama Fiction.
chapter 6 of kidnapped this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina kidnapped by robert louis stevenson chapter 6 what befell at the queen's ferry

as soon as we came to the inn ransom led us up the stair to a small room with a bed in it and heated like an oven by a great fire of coal at a table hard by the chimney a tall dark sober looking man sat riding in spite of the heat of the room he wore a thick sea jacket buttoned to the neck and a tall hairy cap drawn down over his ears yet i never saw any man not even a judge upon the bench looked cooler or more studious and self-possessed than this ship captain he got to his feet at once and coming forward offered his large hand to ebenezer i am proud to see you mr balfour said he in a fine deep voice and glad that you are here in time the wind's fair and the tide upon the turn we'll see the old coal bucket burning on the isle of may before tonight captain ho season return my uncle you keep your room uncle hot it's a habit i have mr bell for said the skipper i'm a cold rife man by my nature i have a cold blood sir there's neither fern or flannel no sir nor hot rum will warm up what they call the temperature sir it's the same with most men that have been carbonared as they call it in the tropic seas well well captain replied my uncle we must all be the way we're made but a chance that's as fancy of the captains had a great share in my misfortunes for though i had promised myself not to let my kinsmen out of sight i was both so impatient for a nearer look of the sea and so sickened by the closeness of the room that when he told me to run downstairs and play myself a while i was full enough to take him at his word a way i went therefore leaving the two men sitting down to a bottle and a great mass of papers and crossing the road in front of the inn walked down upon the beach with the wind in that quarter only little wavelets not much bigger than i had seen upon a lake beat upon the shore but the weeds were new to me some green some brown and long and some with little platters that crackled between my fingers even so far up the firth the smell of the sea water was exceedingly salt and stirring the covenant besides was beginning to shake out her sails which hung upon the yards and clusters and the spirit of all that i beheld put me in thoughts of far voyages and foreign places i looked too at the semen with the skiff big brown fellows some in shirts some with jackets some with colored handkerchiefs about their throats one with a brace of pistols stuck into his pockets two or three with naughty bludgeons and all with their case knives i passed the time of day with one that looked less desperate than his fellows and asked him of the sailing of the brig he said they would get underway as soon as the ebb set and expressed his gladness to be out of a port where there were no taverns and fiddlers but all with such horrifying oaths that i made haste to get away from him this threw me back on ransom who seemed the least wicked of that gang and who soon came out of the inn and ran to me crying for a bowl of punch i told him i would give him no such thing for neither he nor i was of an age for such indulgences but a glass of ale you may have and welcome says i he mopped and mowed at me and called me names but he was glad to get the ale for all that and presently we were sat down at a table in the front room of the inn and both eating and drinking with a good appetite here it occurred to me that as the landlord was a man of that county i might do well to make a friend of him i offered him a share as was much to custom in those days but he was far too great a man to sit with such poor customers as ransom and myself and he was leaving the room...

The Mystery of the Fires by Edith Lavell 4 Free Teens Mystery Novels Adventure Audiobook.
chapter 4 of the mystery of the fires by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain another fire everybody at shady nook worked all day monday on the decorations for the boats everybody that is except mr and mrs flick and a few of the older people who were preparing the food for the supper on the little island that night jane was helping clifford hunter paint pieces of wood which were intended to transform his launch into an auto gyro and david mccall and mary louise picked flowers and leaves all afternoon to make festoons for her canoe i do think freckles and those other kids might have helped us she remarked as she tied on the last cluster of sunflowers oh we didn't need them returned david smiling he had enjoyed having mary louise to himself all afternoon it's five o'clock now we'll have to hurry and wash and dress don't forget separate flicks is half past tonight the young man nodded i'll be ready mary lou mrs gay's voice interrupted them from the inside of the bungalow has anybody seen freckles she called not since this morning replied her daughter i tried to get him to help us but he said he was off for the day with his gang yes i know that i gave him some lunch but he ought to be home by now he'll probably be along in a minute but he did not come david went back to the inn and mrs gay and the two girls dressed for the picnic but still freckles did not appear we can't go off and leave him without any supper said mrs gay because mrs flick is going to close the dining room and lock up at 6 30. if only we could phone the smiths side mary louise he's probably over there with the boys suppose jane and i run over it's too far it will make you late for supper not very late we'll hurry come on jane we'll be back in 10 minutes but you go on down to the end mother and order the dinner mrs gay nodded immensely relieved what a comfort mary louise was you never had to ask her to do anything for you the two girls hurried away along the private road beside the river past the flicks and the robinsons then turned up the hill to the smith's house beyond it was jane's first sight of the imposing looking place at close range she exclaimed in admiration what a marvelous house they must be awfully rich they are replied mary louise but they don't appreciate this place a bit mr and mrs smith are hardly ever here at all in the summer those two boys just run wild there's a nurse to look after the little girl she's only four years old but the boys do pretty much as they please emboss the servants around that's why mother and i feel worried about freckles when he's with them a sedate looking butler answered the girl's ring at the door no miss was his reply to mary louise's question the boys haven't been here all day did they expect to go to the picnic tonight on the island yes miss steve the chauffeur was to take them mary louise sighed there was nothing she could do well if my brother comes back here will you please send him right over to the inn she asked and tell him to hurry the girls turned away and started back it's going to spoil mother's evening remarked mary louise disconsolately oh he'll be sure to turn up soon return jane reassuringly i know but even if he does he won't be able to get to the island all the boats at shady nook are being used even the rowboats everybody's glowing except the dipmars poor adelaide dipmar sai jane imagine missing all that fun just because of a grouchy husband i'm glad i'm single mary louise laughed all men aren't alike jane you know cliff hunter would never miss any fun or max or norman she added mentioning their two best friends in riverside mrs gay looked up hopefully as the girls entered the inn but her expression changed immediately she could tell from their faces that they had not been successful after supper was over all was bustle and excitement as the people got into the boats and...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 6 Free Public Domain Audiobooks Teen Mystery Book.
chapter 5 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain the stolen treasure i'm not just tired announced jane patterson dropping into the hammock on mary louise's porch after the tennis was over i'm completely exhausted i don't believe i can even move as far as our house let alone walk anywhere oh yes you can replied mary louise you'll feel lots better after you get a shower and some clean clothing four sets of tennis oughten to do you up many a time i've seen you good for six i know but they weren't so strenuous honestly you and max ran me ragged i tell you mary lou i'm all in and i couldn't walk up that hill to miss grant's house if it meant life or death to me but think of poor elsie she may need us now oh what could we do i don't know yet but we have to go to find out just what was stolen if for nothing else she may know by this time then why not let the boys drive us up ask jane with a yawn you know why we can't let them into the secret they tell everybody and i bet if the thing got out miss grant would be so mad she'd have elsie arrested then and there no there's nothing for us to do but walk so please go get your shower weirdly jane struggled to her feet okay but i warn you i may drop in my tracks and then you'll have to carry me i'll take that chance mary louise met another protest from her mother who tried to insist that her daughter lie down for a rest before supper but here again persuasion won really i'm not tired mother she explained it's only that i'm hot and dirty and we have something very important to do i wish i could tell you all about it but i can't now her mother seemed satisfied she had learned by this time that she could trust mary louise all right dear she said call jane over and you may all have some lemonade freckle said he had to have a cold drink the refreshments revived even jane and half an hour later the two girls were walking up the shady lane which led towards the grant place it wasn't so bad as jane had expected the road was so sheltered by trees that they did not mind the climb once inside the hedge they peered eagerly in among the cedar trees for a glimpse of elsie but they did not see her anywhere she's probably in the kitchen helping hannah with the dinner concluded mary louise let's go around back here they found her sitting on the back step shelling peas she was wearing her old dress again and the girls could see that she had been crying but her eyes lighted up with pleasure at the sight of her two friends oh i'm so glad to see you girls she cried i wanted you so much and i didn't know how to let you know you see i don't even have your address though that wouldn't have done me much good because i'm not allowed out of the gate and i haven't any stamp to put on a letter the only thing i could do was pray that you would come well here we are announced mary louise with a significant look at jane now tell us why you especially wanted us i wanted you to assure aunt maddie that you really did give me those dresses and things right away she said i must have bought them with her money though how she thinks i ever had a chance to get to any store is beyond me she knows i never leave this place how did she find out about them inquired mary louise you didn't show them to her did you no i didn't she found them while she was searching through my things this morning to see whether i had her money hidden anywhere that's terrible exclaimed jane oh how dreadful it must be to be all alone in the world without anybody who trusts you something of the same thought ran through mary louise's brain at the same time tell us just what has happened today since we left urged mary louise has anybody been here no not a soul but aunt maddie put me through a lot more questions at lunch and afterwards she gave my room a thorough search when she found my new clothes she...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 5 Free Public Domain Audiobooks Teen Mystery Adventure.
chapter 4 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain interviewing hannah keeping under cover of the cedar trees mary louise and jane followed elsie grant at a discreet distance to the back of the house unlike the front entrance there was a screen at the kitchen door so the girls could hear hannah's exclamation at the sight of the transformation in elsie's appearance my land she cried in amazement where did you get them clothes elsie elsie laughed the first normal girlish laugh that mary louise and jane had ever heard from her don't i look nice hannah she asked i haven't seen myself in a mirror but i'm sure i do i feel so different you look swell alright agreed the servant but no credit to you if that's what you've done with your aunt's money oh no hannah protested elsie you're wrong there i didn't buy these things they were given to me the two girls were standing at the screen door now in full view and elsie beckoned for them to come inside these are my friends hannah the girls who rescued at maddie's kitten remember and they brought me the clothes this morning the woman shook her head it might be true but nobody'd believe it folks don't give away nice things like that i know that for i've had a lot of hand-me-downs in my life besides they fit you too good but we did bring them to lc asserted jane you can see that we're all about the same size and we can prove it by our mothers we'll bring them over you'll do nothing of the kind returned hannah miss maddie don't want a lot of strangers poking into her house and her affairs now you two run along and elsie hurry up and get out of that finery look at them dishes waiting for you in the sink the girl nodded and disappeared up the back stairs humming a little tune to herself as she went mary louise stood still we want to ask you a question or two hannah she explained we want to help find the thief who stole miss grant's money the woman's nose shot in the air and a stubborn look came over her face is that so she asked defiantly and what business is that of yorn we're making it our business replied mary louise patiently because we're fond of elsie we think it's terrible for her to be accused of something she didn't do how do you know she didn't do it why we just know that ain't no reason besides what do you know about elsie grant seen her a couple of times and listen to her hard luck story and believe you know all about her but surely you don't believe elsie stole that money demanded jane if she had she'd certainly have run away immediately wouldn't she maybe if she had the spirit but anyhow it ain't none of your business and miss maddie don't want it to get around she don't want no scandal now get along with you please hannah begged mary louise we'll promise not to tell anybody about the robbery not even our mothers if you just answer a couple of questions the woman eyed her suspiciously you think maybe i done it she demanded well i didn't miss maddie knows how honest i am william too that's me husband we've been in this house ever since miss maddie was a girl and the whole family knows they can trust us oh my goodness exclaimed mary louise i'm not suspecting you hannah all i want is a little information you're not going to the police and tell them what you know or to some detective no on my word of honor no jane and i are going to try and be detectives ourselves that's all for elsie's sake the woman's expression softened after all mary louise's brown eyes had a winning way all right only hurry up i got a lot of work to do mary louise smiled i'll be quick she promised i just want to know whether you think there was any time during the day or evening before miss grant went to bed when a burglar could have entered the house without being seen or heard hannah stopped beating the cake which she had been mixing while this...

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My Doggie and I by Robert Michael Ballantyne 5 Free Animal Story Audiobook Teen Fiction.
chapter 5 of my doggy and i by robert valentine this librivox recording is in the public domain recorded by alison hester chapter 5 conspiracy villainy innocence and tragedy in one of the dirtiest of the dirty and disreputable dens of london a man and a boy sat on that same dark december night engaged in earnest conversation their seats were stools their table was an empty flower barrel their apartment a cellar a farthing candle stood awry in the neck of a pint bottle a broken lipped jug of gin and water hot and two cracked teacups stood between them the damp of the place was drawn out rather than abated by a small fire which burned in a rusty grate over which they sought to warm their hands as they conversed the man was palpably a scoundrel not less so was the boy slagger said the man in a growling voice we must do it this very night well brassy i'm game replied the slogger draining his cup with a defiant air if it ain't been for that old woman as was caretaker all last summer continued the man as he pricked a refractory tobacco pipe we'd have found the job more difficult but you see she went and lost the key at a back door and the doctor he had to get another so i goes and gets round the old woman and pumps her about the lost key and at last i finds it do you see but return the slogger with a knowing frown seems to me as how you'd never get two keys into one lock eh the new one wouldn't let the old and then would it ah that's where it is replied mr brassy with a lear as he raised his cup to his large ugly mouth and chuckled you see the doctor's wife she is somewhat timbersome and looks ordered to locking up every night herself very particular then she has all the keys up in her own bedroom and nights so you see in consequence of her uncommon care she keeps all the locks clear for you and me to work upon the slogger was so overcome by this instant of the result of excessive caution that he laughed heartily for some minutes and had to apply for relief to the hot gin and water however did you come four to find that out ask the boy servants replied the man exclaimed the boy with a wink which would have been knowing if the spirits had not by that time rendered it ridiculous yes you see continued the elder ruffian blowing a heavy cloud of smoke like a cannon shot from his lips servants is variable in character some is good and some is bad i mostly take up with a badass there's one in the doctor's house as is a prime favorite with me and knows all about the locks she does but there's a new one unexpected difficulties sprang up in the way in this very morning what's that demanded the slogger with an heir of a man prepared to defy all difficulties they've been and got a dog a little dog too the very worst kind for kicking up a row however it ain't the first time you and i have met and conquered such a difficulty you'll take a bit of cat's meat in your pocket you know all right exclaimed the young housebreaker with a reckless toss of his shaggy head as he laid his hand on the jug but the elder scoundrel laid his stronger hand upon it come slaga no more that you've had too much already you won't be fit for duty if you take more it's very hard on a cove growled the lads circly brassy looked narrowly into his face then took up the forbidden jug and himself drained it after which he rose grasped the boy by his collar and forced him struggling towards a sink full of dirty water into which he thrust his head and shook it about roughly for a second or two there that'll sober you said the man releasing the boy and sending him into the middle of the room with a kick now don't let your monkey rise laga it's all for your good i'll be back in half an hour see that you have the tools ready so saying the man left the cellar and the boy who was much exasperated though decidedly sobered by his treatment proceeded to dry himself with a jack towel and make...