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determined to set to work and get the two
dollars as soon as he could, in some way or
other.

‘Though you may suppose that Jack was
a very bad boy, by his thus forming a plan
to run away from his father and mother, yet
he was not so very bad a boy after all ; and
he would not steal, or do any thing to get
his money dishonestly. In fact, it was
partly his father and mother’s fault that he
determined to run away.”

“ His father and mother’s!” said Rollo,
with great surprise.

“Yes,” said Jonas, ‘‘ because they did not
bring him up right. They did not make
him study his lessons, and obey their com-
mands, faithfully enough. In fact, they let
him have his own way pretty much, and so
he did not care but little for them.

“'The way he contrived to get his money
was by selling old iron.”

“Old iron!” said Rollo.

“Yes; the blacksmiths there used to buy
the old iron which the boys picked up about
the streets and wharves; and so Jack went
to work collecting all the old iron he could
find or beg, and the blacksmiths would buy