Excerpt from The Tattler, Vol. 2: May 15, 1915 One day after harvest, as the boys were sitting around the fire waiting for supper one of them suddenly became bold and asked him why he spoke so sarcastically. He did not answer them because supper was just announced. After supper, however, he told us his story-how he had become a wanderer, and why, and we ceased to wonder that he was so silent and strange. His father and his mother's brother had worked in a bank together. The brother was a sport and it was the old story of misapplied use of entrusted funds but it was Shorty's father who was convicted and sent to prison for not more than ten years. His good behavior won him his freedom in five years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.