`` Yes , the man did n't pay me , and I would n't ask for it . Took it out in beating the boy , '' and Dan laughed , yet looked ashamed , as he glanced at his ragged clothes and dirty hands . `` How did you live ? It was a long , long tramp for a boy like you . '' `` Oh , I got on well enough , till I hurt my foot . Folks gave me things to eat , and I slept in barns and tramped by day . I got lost trying to make a short cut , or I 'd have been here sooner . '' `` But if you did not mean to come in and stay with us , what were you going to do ? '' `` I thought I 'd like to see Teddy again , and you ; and then I was going back to my old work in the city , only I was so tired I went to sleep on the hay . I 'd have been gone in the morning , if you had n't found me . '' `` Are you sorry I did ? '' and Mrs. Jo looked at him with a half merry , half reproachful look , as she knelt down to look at his wounded foot . The color came up into Dan 's face , and he kept his eyes fixed on his plate , as he said very low , `` No , ma'am , I 'm glad , I wanted to stay , but I was afraid you -- '' He did not finish , for Mrs. Bhaer interrupted him by an exclamation of pity , as she saw his foot , for it was seriously hurt . `` When did you do it ? '' `` Three days ago . '' `` And you have walked on it in this state ? '' `` I had a stick , and I washed it at every brook I came to , and one woman gave me a rag to put on it . '' `` Mr. Bhaer must see and dress it at once , '' and Mrs. Jo hastened into the next room , leaving the door ajar behind her , so that Dan heard all that passed . `` Fritz , the boy has come back . '' `` Who ?
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