Page 125 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

“ JACK AND JAKE.”

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(1 A C K A N D J A K E ." This is what they used to be

called. T h eir names were alw ays coupled together.
Wherever you saw one, you were very apt to see the
other—jack* slender, with yellow hair, big gray eyes, and
spirited look ; and Jake, thick-set and brown, close to him,
like his shadow, with bis shining skin and white teeth.

They were always in sight somewhere ; it might be running
about the yard or far down on tlie plantation, or it might be
climbing trees to look into birds' nests—which they were
forbidden to trouble— or wading in the creek, riding in the
carts or wagons about the fields, or following the furrow,

waiting a chance to ride a plough-horse home.
Jake belonged to Jack. He had been given to him by
his old master, Jack's grandfather, when jack was only a few
years old, and from that time the two boys Were rarely sepa­
rated, except at night.

Jake was a little larger than Jack, as he was somewhat
older, but Jack was the more active, Jake was dull ; some