E-text prepared by David Edwards, David K. Park, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 35046-h.htm or 35046-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35046/pg35046-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35046/35046-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/teddycarrotstwom00otis TEDDY AND CARROTS JAMES OTIS [Illustration: TEDDY AND CARROTS LEAVE THE "TOMBS."] TEDDY AND CARROTS Two Merchants of Newspaper Row by JAMES OTIS Author of "Jenny Wren's Boarding-House," "The Boys' Revolt," "Jerry's Family," "The Boys of 1745," etc. Illustrated by W. A. Rogers Boston Estes and Lauriat Publishers Copyright, 1895 and 1896 By the Century Co. Copyright, 1896 By Estes and Lauriat All rights reserved Colonial Press: C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped by Geo. C. Scott & Sons CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE A NEWCOMER 11 CHAPTER II. THE ASSAULT 21 CHAPTER III. THE ARREST 31 CHAPTER IV. THE PRISONER 43 CHAPTER V. A SUGGESTION 56 CHAPTER VI. THE TRIAL 67 CHAPTER VII. THE WARNING 80 CHAPTER VIII. THE PARTNERS 93 CHAPTER IX. THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN 108 CHAPTER X. SKIP'S VENGEANCE 121 CHAPTER XI. A FRIENDLY ARGUMENT 135 CHAPTER XII. CARROTS'S CHARITY 149 CHAPTER XIII. A MEDICAL FRIEND 162 CHAPTER XIV. THE PLOT 176 CHAPTER XV. THE CONFLAGRATION 187 CHAPTER XVI.