Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

ul park of ten acres. On the left-hand side was a large marble building, presenting a fi

. "I've heard of it often. My Uncle William a

Dick. "They was very reasonable in their

u'll be able to slee

Queen Victoria goes to

"The queen needn't be ashamed to live

th Avenue Hotel. St. James' Palace is a very ugly-looking brick structure, and appears much more like a factory

m on the sidewalk, who looked back at

ck, after he had passed. "

is his

n't k

as if he thoug

dn't been for my new clothes," said Dick.

our face loo

"I don't always have the chance of wash

re was a place where you could get l

the 'Sun' office. It's a good place. I don't know what us boys would do wit

n't even have the five

' down Chatham Street, with fifty cents in my pocket. I was goin' to get a good oyster-stew, and then go to the lodgin' house; but somehow it slipped thr

lize that the boy who was walking at his side had actually walked the street

he asked, his voi

the pressmen, and he let me set down in a corne

m somewhere, and so alwa

ught of it. P'rhaps I may hire a f

e Flora McFl

who had never read the popular

tion was going on,

and had by this time

ct of an individual in front of them. Stopping suddenly, he appeared to pick up

ered Dick. "Come along a

il they overtook the man, wh

und anything

he man, "I've

med stuffed with bills, to judg

imed Dick; "y

t it," said the man, "and w

you'l

next train to Boston. That's where I liv

e pocket-book with you," said

t fellow who would see it returned to the

est," sa

er. "Well, young man, I'll make you

. Hand it

uldn't wonder if there might be a thousand dollars. The

stay and get it

ssible. Just give me twenty dollars, and I'll hand you the pocket-book, and let

s at all improbable that he might possess that sum. He was p

deal of money," said Dic

a good deal more," said t

I shall. What wo

uld," said Frank, "if

rprised to think that

d Dick, after some irresolutio

iskly. "Only be quick, for I must be on my way

et-book in return. At that moment a policeman turned the corner, and the stranger, hurrie

ed Frank in some excitement. "I hope there's

lau

sk that,

nty dollars. That's a

h as that, I should deserv

did,-di

hough

was it

y-goods circular got up

looked

cheated him, Dick," h

e want to

n't k

is in that pocket-book?"

le proportions, and an

d a good d

ough in it to buy a o

ieve it, just loo

blank paper, carefully folded up in the shape of bills. Frank, who was unused to city life,

ere. This wallet's worth somethin'. I shall use it to keep my stiffkit's of Erie

pers it's got in it no

so!" s

int the old chap comin' back ag'in. He looks a

pocket-book dro

undertone to Dick, "Give me back t

er," said Dick, "but w

, I

me. I've knowed some rascals, but I a

didn't improve the man's temper. Accustomed to swindle

ket-book," he repeated

ner. The contents is so valooable that most likely the loss has made hi

a bogus bill,

use myself,

swindl

it was the

n angrily. "If you don't give up tha

likely whether it's Stewart or Astor that's lost

he same game on a more satisfactory customer, was irritated by Dick's refusal, a

ss the night in th

like to have me come and stop with you, I'm agreeable; but my two youngest children is down with the measles, and I

at Frank could scarcely forbear laughing, though it is hardly

ometime," he s

dollars as a reward for my honesty, I'll divide with you. But I

made out of Dick, the man str

mart for him, D

nocked round the city stree