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Major Burdle is a fast-talking, Burdle takes over the care of Lefty's
amiable swindler of the post Civil baby son, Dan.
War period. He has a nice little He keeps Dan and reforms for the
"racket" whereby he collects a dollar lad's sake. During the years that
for a picture of Washington on a pass until Dan is 12 years old, Major
postage stamp. Burdle is visited by Burdle sells a medicine that cures
an old acquaintance and friend, drunkenness. Dan helps in the shows,
Willie the Fox, reported dead after and the two enjoy a free and easy
his latest bank burglary. This is a life, with Dan loving Major Burdle
·oke to Willie because there is a and believing him to be his father.
l arge reward of $5,000 offered for But when Dan is 12, Burdle is sud-
his capture. denly made to realise that Dan is
Willie reports that one of Burdle's missing a normal upbringing. He
best friends, a crook named .Lefty, is agrees to send him to the Plumfield
dead, and Lefty's last request had farm boarding school, which is run by
been for Willie to see that Major Aunt Jo and her husband, Professor

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