Chapter 21 No.21

The Parson and the Scone.

It was dinner-time. And were n't we hungry!-particularly Joe! He was kept from school that day to fork up hay-work hard enough for a man-too hard for some men-but in many things Joe was more than a man's equal. Eating was one of them. We were all silent. Joe ate ravenously. The meat and pumpkin disappeared, and the pile