Chapter 1. Pony‘s Mother, And Why He Had A Right To Run Off
_ CHAPTER I. PONY‘S MOTHER, AND WHY HE HAD A RIGHT TO RUN OFF
If there was any fellow in the Boy‘s Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name； it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way； and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else.
You would have known Pony from the other Frank Baker, anyway, if you had seen them together, for the other Frank Baker was a tall, lank, tow-headed boy, with a face so full of freckles that you could not have put a pin-point between them, and large, bony hands that came a long way out of his coat-sleeves； and the Frank Baker that I mean here was little

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