The Store Boy

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Ben Barclay checked the horse he was driving and looked attentively at the speaker. He was a stout-built dark-complexioned man with a beard of a week's growth wearing an old and dirty suit which would have reduced any tailor to despair if taken to him for cleaning and repairs. A loose hat with a torn crown surmounted a singularly ill-favored visage. A tramp and a hard looking one! said Ben to himself. He hesitated about answering being naturally reluctant to have such a traveling companion. Well what do you say? demanded the tramp rather impatiently. There's plenty of room on that seat and I'm dead tired.