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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.
It really made him feel quite agitated to speak of it. He pulled the splendid gold watch out of his pocket and opened it, and showed the inside of the case to Dick.
"'When this you see, remember me,'" he read. "That was his parting keepsake to me 'I don't want you to forget me'—those was his words—I 'd ha' remembered him," he went on, shaking his head, "if he had n't given me a thing, an' I had n't seen hide nor hair on him again. He was a companion as any man would remember."
"WHY, BOSS!" EXCLAIMED DICK, "DO YOU KNOW HIM YOURSELF?"
"He was the nicest little feller I ever see," said Dick. "An' as to sand—I never seen so much sand to a little feller. I though a
