The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South

Name: The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South
Author: St. George Rathborne

by St. George Rathborne

Pages: about 186
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 3.4 h at 250 wpm

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Author of "CANOE MATES IN CANADA", "CHUMS IN DIXIE" "THE YOUNG FUR TAKERS", Etc.
The speaker, a roughly clad boy of about fifteen or over, caught hold of his companion's sleeve and looked sympathetically in his face.
The lad whom he called Maurice was better dressed, and he seemed to carry with him a certain air of refinement that was lacking in his friend, who was of a rougher nature. Despite this difference he and Thad Tucker were the closest of chums, sharing each other's joys and disappointments, small though they might be.
They had met just now at the post-office of a little country town not many miles below Evansville, Indiana, as the afternoon mail was being sorted.
The yellow flood of the great Ohio River could be seen from where they stood, glowing in the early November sunshine.
Upon being greeted with these words Maurice Pemberton shook his head dolefully.
"It's come, just as I've been half expecting it these four months, Thad. The old couple I live with have sold their house and leave for Chicago in a week. That turns me out into the Streets, for you know they've given me a home ever since mother, who was a friend of Mrs. Jasper, died; and in return I've tried to make good by doing all their gardening and other work between school hours. Now a son has sent for them to come and make their home with him. Pretty tough on a fellow not to know where he's going to sleep after a single week."
But Thad was smiling now, as though an idea had flashed into his head that gave him reason for something akin to pleasure.
"Well, I don't know; if it comes to the worst, Pard Maurice, you're a dozen times welcome to share my old bunky on the shanty- boat. I'd just love to make another cot like mine, and have you there. Say, wouldn't it be grand?

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