ind out I have run off, they will beat
me." This fear made him run so fast, that he got home and back to his
heap of rags ere the man and the girl were up.

As Dick lay on his bed, he made up his mind to be a good boy. He knew
his ma used to pray to God to make him good, so he bent his own knee
to pray, and said, "O God, make Dick a good boy."

Just then the girl came to the door, and said, "Dick! Dick! get up! It
is day!" So Dick soon went down and was so kind and good, they did
not know what to make of it. But Dick went on day by day, and soon he
saw that when he was kind and good, they were kind and true to him.

It was hard work for Dick to give up all his bad ways. But each morn
and eve he went to God, to ask Him for help, and he did not ask in
vain. By-and-by the girl let him sit with her. She made him a good
bed. Miss Puss yet kept her seat on his knee, when he sat down to
rest, and all was love and joy.

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PART IV.

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One day a man, by the name of Jack, came to see them. He was to go on
the sea in a big ship, to a far off land. He had come to say good-bye.
He said to them, "The land that the ship will sail to, is a far off
land, and the men who live in it are not like us, and do not know our
ways. They do not eat or wear what we do. Now what you give me I will
take with me, and sell it for you, and when I come back I will pay
you what I get for it. It may be that I will get much gold for it; for
the men in that far off land like what is made here, more than what
they have at home."

So the man and the girl were glad, and gave him much to sell for
them. Poor Dick sat, with his cat on his knee; a tear was in his eye,
for he too felt the wish to have some gold. The man saw him look sad,
and said, "Well, Dick, my son, and what will you send?" Dick wept. "I
have but my cat," said Dick. "Well, send that," said Jack; "it may be
she will sell for more than all the rest." They all had much fun at
this, and Dick had to join in. He took puss up in his arms. He gave
her a kiss and a pat on her head. He felt her soft fur. It was hard
for him to part with her, for she had been his pet for a long time.
But at last he set her down. He got a big bag. He put puss in it. She
did not like to be thus shut up, but Dick tied her in.

So the man took the bag in his arms, and went to his ship. When he
got to the ship, he let the cat out of the bag. She was glad to be
free once more, and ra