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D wake his father. Very few fathers would have dressed up and gone home
with a boy at midnight, and perhaps this one did so only because the
mother made him; but it shows how clever the whole family was. It was
their oldest boy whom my boy and his brother chiefly went with before
that boy who knew about _Monte Cristo_ came to learn the trade in their
father's office. One Saturday in July they three spent the whole day
together. It was just the time when the apples are as big as walnuts on
the trees, and a boy wants to try whether any of them are going to be
sweet or not. The boys tried a great many of them, in an old orchard
thrown open for building-lots behind my boy's yard; but they could not
find any that were not sour; or that they could eat till they thought of
putting salt on them; if you put salt on it, you could eat any kind of
green apple, whether it was going to be a sweet kind or not. They went
up to the Basin bank and got lots of salt out of the holes in the
barrels lying there, and then they ate all the apples they could hold,
and after that they cut limber sticks off the trees, and sharpened the
points, and stuck apples on them and threw them. You could send an apple
almost out of sight that way, and you could scare a dog almost as far as