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THE MONKEYS.
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cellar was inhabited, for a poor boy, of perhaps
not more than twelve years of age, groped
about and soon got hold of me. You should
have seen his delight at making my
acquaintance ! Why, his eyes glistened like two lights in
the dark cellar. I crept up to him ; he brought
me some water, and tore a shred of his tattered
shirt, and put a bandage over my lacerated
limb. We became great chums, I can tell you.
Neither of us dared to go out in broad
daylight, for he told me he was a runaway
workhouse child, and lived now as best he could,
which was scarcely at all. He was very good
to me, though, and brought me some morsels of
food. I did not want much, for I was sick and
faint from bleeding.
" How many days Jem,—as he called
himself,—tended me in this way, I cannot tell, for
it was always night in the coal-cellar. I slept
on his breast to keep both of us warm, and I
listened frequently in the hopes of hearing Carlo’s
well-known step, for I thought he would be
looking out for me; but I never saw him again.
We had lost each other in the human desert.
When I was quite recovered, Jem took me one
evening into the street, and up a dark alley,
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