“Boys! Come in! I’ve something to show you!” Mr. McMahon said as he walked up to the front steps of the apartment house on Lawrence Street.

Tommy, 14, and his new little brother, Jake, who they had decided was 10, stood up from where they had been crouching at the gutter, and Jake held up a horseshoe. “Look what I found!” he said, as he worked to pull out the last nail.

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