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

below the Cooper Institute, runs out to Harlem. A man came out of a side stre

ated Frank, looking i

hat does

'd like some

heard of

im what he charges

at the man, and soon conc

" he said. "He mea

nous cry of these men certainly sounds more like "

Dick, "where

Central Park," said

and a half from here

and the Park begins a

found the terminus of the Harlem line of horse-cars. When the entire island is laid out and settled, probably the numbers will reach two hundred or more. Central Park, which lies between Fifty-ninth Street on the south, and One Hundred and Tenth Street on the north,

far to walk

t six cents to r

in the h

es

We'll jump aboa

sually dirty and overcrowded. Still, when it is considered that only seven cents are charged for the entire distance to Harlem, about seven miles fro

nt approaching, but it

t, or wait for ano

st likely be as

ont platform. They were obliged to stand up till the car reached Fortieth

nd thin lips did not seem to promise a very pleasant disposition. When the two gentlemen who sat beside

two," she said, loo

re two he

been. Some people like to cro

hought Frank; but he did not say so. He saw that the wom

s it is quite inferior to Broadway, though better than some of the avenues further east. Fifth Avenue, as most of my readers already know, is the finest street in the city, being lined with splendid private residences, occupi

en. While he was busy looking out of the car window, she plunged her hand into her pocket in search of her purse, which she was unable to find. Instantly she ju

he exclaimed i

ma'am?" returned

to come here

s the

dollars and eighty cents in it. I know,

stole

harge in the most intense astonishment. "He crowded in here o

" exclaimed Di

e say," said the woman spitefully. "Y

ale, you be!" said

l me a female, sir," s

man in disguise,

" said Frank, quietly. "The conduct

eir pockets, to make sure that they, too, had not been robbed. As for Frank, his face flushed, and he felt very indignant that he s

brought himself up, and known plenty of boys and men, too, who would steal, he had never done so himself. He thought it mean.

ith the boys. Appearances go a great wa

said a gentleman sitting opposite. "The

lady, sourly. "They're deceitful;

me with my Washington coat on. You'd thi

aid the lady, scowling in

Dick. "'Tisn't often I ge

the lady, wrathfully. "I believ

he car had

manded a passenger, impatiently. "I'm in

t-book," said th

and I don't see as it's doing yo

ng scamp?" continued the aggrieved lady. "You don't expe

" said Frank, proudly. "There's no need of a police

he conductor, "if the lad

ignified h

side out, but nothing was revealed exce

you satisfied?" as

," said she

hink he's go

his confederate, that boy ther

" said Dick

said the lady; "I

tion, only, as I've got valooable property about

, a battered cent, about fifty cents in change, and the capacious pocket-book which he

holding up the wallet which excited some amaz

ge pocket-book for a young man

my cash and valooable

rs, ma'am," said the cond

rry round such a great wallet as that. Mos

e you'd be!" said Dick

k it

money's in it," sai

pen that wallet, and s

le papers," said Dick, in

let excited some amusem

the conductor, taking out a roll of tissue pape

ers of no valoo to anybody but the owner? If the

e discomfiture. "I shouldn't wonder if one of th

ntleman opposite. "I don't believe either of the boys is

u, sir,"

ie. She hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry at this discovery. It placed her in rather an awkward position after

ok you thought stolen?

she, rathe

harply. "I wish you'd take care to be sure next time before you make such a

e cross reply; "I didn't

oys you accused of a theft which they have

dy, whose temper was not of the best; "least

aint of no consequence, only I didn't like to expose the contents of my valooab

the gentleman who had alr

cter!" mutte

against the lady, and on the side of the boys who had been falsel

et, the southern boundary of the Park, an

," said the conductor, pleasantly. "That big w

r of burglars breakin' in and robbin' us of our valooable treasures. Sometimes I think I'll give al

nd the boys turned up Fifty-ninth Street, for t