The Erie Train Boy

rs, but trade seemed rather dull. About eleven o'clock he went through the first car distributing some packages of candy to the vari

insignificant features, and a mean look. He seemed very much

e package of can

asked the passen

th you when I pass

you mean. You left

tinctly leaving

nking of som

I am

n!" said the pas

up and let me see if it is on th

I w

ckage, and was scheming to cheat him out of the dime. He

r boy trying to earn an honest living. If yo

what I haven't got. Boy, you are very impertinent.

to. I can't afford to giv

opposite, "I quite agree with this gentleman

ted by them,"

ay, I would make it my busin

f I was

right. This gentleman's

shoul

entleman, and you are

r, but I always

ngton," sneered th

ssenger smiled with satisfaction. But his triumph was

his difficulty. "I saw this man take the package and put it in his pocket. I have waited with s

ing. The attempted swindler looked as

he stammered. "The yo

sitively "If this man will allow his pocket

is seat and prepare

to being insul

ave only to look at this man's side-pock

at, and it was plain to all

if the passenger is not hone

h-looking man who looke

or I'll pitch him ou

us looking man with an air of disgust. "I took yo

and handed it to Fred. Then, looking very ill at ease, he l

nces like this?" asked th

o cheat me. Sometimes I travel on emigrant trains, but I never lost a cent by an emig

make g

about a dol

s fair pay for a

it all. I have a mother

lady sympathetically. "You can't al

e by sewing, but that

u sometimes get i

The rent is due, and we lack

hday to-day, and I shall allow myself the luxury of doing good

a weight from my mind. Our landlord is a strict man, a

me shake hands with

me forward impulsively from his seat, and was ext

ent, but with a pleasant s

like you, miss," said the mine

d do the same, sir,

adn't got the start of me. You'll excu

s, cert

ough min

You may hereafter have it i

the miner retrea

t, Fred found his little

y for the rent. The landlord said he would t

tle late," said

at sort of a critter your landlord is. The mean scoundr

in placing the bureau on the sidewalk when Fred an

xclaimed Fred in excitement.

Sloan the miner. "We

g here?" demanded

ound, and eyed the bo

r I'd move her out

wait for me? I'v

u h

, I

t over

o do so when the

he carries back the

end can do that!"

nd take it back I'll wring your neck, you

the miner's face and th

ullenly. "Take hold, and do

who had changed the five-dollar bill

u and that understrapper of yours must enjoy moving bureaus. I only wish you'd got down the

s if he would like to tear him to

, "we don't care to have the plea

h you for all thi

squire. You've

ed, "this is my f

boy," said Mrs. Fenton. "Won't yo

a'am, if it won

've had luck to-day, mother. A beauti

Fenton. "She couldn't have