on a foot warmer, and awakens the n

pitch black. It thundered, and bright flashes of lightning now and again shot across the sky, turning it into a sea

felt was far greater than his fear. In a dozen leaps and bounds, he came

closed, the doors, the windows. In the streets, not eve

rew himself upon the bell, and pulled it wildly, s

ghtcap opened the window and loo

want at this

ugh to give me a bit

thinking he had to deal with one of those boys who love to roam aro

or two, the s

window and hold

just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on

as a rag, and tired out

ich to stand, he sat down on a little stool a

is wooden feet began to burn. Slowly, very

were not his own. At dawn he opened his eye

alled, yawning an

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