LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"NOT ROBERT WATSON SURELY?"

"WHY, WHAT'S THIS?"

HE HAD BEEN ROBBED IN A CRUEL MANNER

"YOU'RE FROM THE COUNTRY, I S'POSE?".

WANDERING BLINDFOLD.

CHAPTER I.

ROBERT.

HAPPY boy was Robert Watson. Yet he knew that he would have to work hard as soon as he left school, for his

father was but a labouring man, and, with the wages he earned, had enough to do to bring up his five children decently.

Perhaps one reason why his home was happy was because work was there done well and heartily by all the members of the family. Even Robert's little sister, Emmy, helped her good mother in her small way when she came back from school. As for Robert, he made himself